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Mirco A. Mannucci
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Elementary Equivalence =? Homotopy Equivalence

One of the most interesting novelties in recent foundational studies is Voevodsky's Homotopical Type Theory project (see here).

Finally homotopy theory ideas have entered in a royal fashion the foundational arena!

I wonder if other areas of logic and foundational studies can be tackled from an homotopical standpoint. For instance, in model theory, one encounters the central notion of elementary equivalence:

two structures M and N of the same signature $\sigma$ are called elementarily equivalent if they satisfy the same first-order σ-sentences.σ-sentences.

The question:

take elementary embedding as a notion of weak equivalence, what kind of structure has the associated homotopy category? Perhaps dreaming a little, can one even manage to identify a Quillen model structure on the category of $\sigma$ -structures?

Mirco A. Mannucci
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