Homotopical inverse diagrams in categories with attributes

Abstract

We define and develop the infrastructure of homotopical inverse diagrams in categories with attributes. Specifically, given a category with attributes $C$ and an ordered homotopical inverse category $I$, we construct the category with attributes $C^I$ of homotopical diagrams of shape $I$ in $C$ and Reedy types over these; and we show how various logical structure ($\Pi$-types, identity types, and so on) lifts from $C$ to $C^I$. This may be seen as providing a general class of diagram models of type theory. In a companion paper "The homotopy theory of type theories" (arXiv:1610.00037), we apply the present results to construct semi-model structures on categories of contextual categories.