用类型论形式化因果模型,揭示干预与上下文依赖的深层矛盾。
A cubical formalisation of topos causal models: intervention, forcing, and a contextuality obstruction
- 基于立方体类型论构建无公理的因果模型框架,支持机器验证。
- 发现局部一致数据无法全局建模的上下文依赖障碍,由一阶全息类检测。
- 澄清干预本质是核函数的手术而非单纯子对象选择,适合逻辑与量子因果研究者。
拓扑因果模型将因果推断嵌入拓扑结构中:一个因果世界是一个预层,干预由特征映射到子对象分类器 Ω 的子模型表示,推理通过直觉主义内部语言中的克里普克-乔伊尔强制实现。我们首次在立方体阿格达中给出了该1-拓扑核心的无公理机器验证版本,基于先前验证的概率单子和do演算;其余内容为纸面推导,关键命题仅陈述未证明。三个结果超越忠实转录:揭示了该程序未处理的上下文依赖障碍——成对一致的局部因果数据无全局模型,由一阶全息类检测;限定干预由子对象分类器描述:干预与观测命名同一子对象,Ω 固定 do 操作的目标但不决定操作本身,其本质是核的手术——在混杂因子上,干预与观测律不同;并证明模态单位的膨胀性可由 j⊤ = ⊤ 和自然性推导,无需第四公理。还机器验证了筛子分类器及其分类定理、局部机制的拉回构造及克里普克-乔伊尔强制规则。开发不依赖公理,在阿格达的 --safe 模式下类型检查通过,有序域在 ℚ 上释放;类型层面的层化与有向 do 演算为未来工作。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Topos causal models recast causal inference inside a topos: a causal world is a presheaf, an intervention is a sub-model named by a characteristic map into the subobject classifier $\Om$, and reasoning is Kripke-Joyal forcing in an intuitionistic internal language. We give the first axiom-free machine-checked account of this 1-topos core, in Cubical Agda over a previously verified probability monad and do-calculus; the framework is otherwise developed on paper, with central claims stated rather than proved. Three of our results go beyond faithful transcription. We exhibit a contextuality obstruction the programme does not treat: pairwise-consistent local causal data with no global model, detected by a degree-one holonomy class. We delimit the claim that interventions are modelled by the subobject classifier: an intervention and an observation name the same subobject, so $\Om$ fixes the target of a do-operation but not the operation itself, which is surgery on the kernels --- where, on a confounder, the interventional and observational laws differ. And we settle the modal unit --- inflationarity is derivable from $j\top = \top$ and naturality, not a fourth axiom. We also machine-check the classifier of sieves with its classification theorem, the pullback collating local mechanisms, and the Kripke-Joyal forcing clauses. The development assumes no axioms and typechecks under Agda's \texttt{--safe} flag, with the ordered field discharged at $\mathbb{Q}$; type-level sheafification and a directed do-calculus are future work.
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