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Proof techniques for showing that dependent type checking is decidable
I'm in a situation where I need to show that typechecking is decidable for a dependently-typed calculus I'm working on. So far, I've been able to prove that the system is strongly normalizing, and ...
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What's the difference between Moggi's computational metalanguage and Moggi's lambda calculus?
This is a reference confusion. Sometimes I see people use the term "Moggi's computational metalanguage" to refer to the calculus presented by Moggi, and sometimes to "Moggi's computational lambda ...
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Moggi's computational metalanguage
In Notions of Computation and Monads Moggi models the notion of a computation of type $A$, $TA$, using a monad $T$. Among other things this ensures the $T\eta$ rule:
$$\frac{x: A \vdash a:TB}{x:A \...
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Head variables of terms after application
We work in the Church-style simply typed lambda calculus. All terms shall be considered in long normal form. Any term of type $A_1\rightarrow A_2\ldots\rightarrow A_n \rightarrow 0$ is of the form $\...
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Program inversion algorithms for higher-order programs
The term program inversion
has multiple shades of meaning, but probably got started with
J. McCarthy's 1956 work The Inversion of Functions Defined by Turing Machines in the context of AI. By now ...
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Finding a common factor in $\lambda$-terms that agree under certain substitutions
Suppose that $\mathcal{L}$ is the language of a simply typed lambda calculus of two base types, $e$ and $t$, with infinitely many constants at each type.
A substitution $j$ is a mapping from ...
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Calculus of Constructions: Compress expression to it's smallest form
I'm aware that the Calculus of Constructions is strongly normalizing, meaning every expression has a normal for that cannot be beta,eta-reduced further. So in fact this is the most efficient ...
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Eta expansion in the pattern lambda calculus
Klop, van Oostrom, and de Vrijer have a paper on the lambda calculus with patterns.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304397508000571
In some sense, a pattern is a tree of variables ...
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Is simply typed lambda calculus equivalent to primitive recursive functions
It's well known that the computation models untyped lambda calculus and $\mu$-recursive function are equivalent in terms of computability (in fact they are both Turing complete.) It is also well known ...
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Coherence spaces and full completeness for the implicative fragment of linear logic
Linear logic isn't complete for coherence space semantics since $1$ and $\top$ get identified. But it is, I believe, complete for the fragment of linear logic whose only connective is $\multimap$.
I ...
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Recursive types and the empty type
In John Mitchell's book "The Foundations of Programming Languages", he considers a typed lambda calculus with unit, exponential, product, (binary) coproduct types, and arbitrary recursive types (p126)....
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Inference in typed lambda calculus theories
I'd like to do automated inference, say solving word problems or reducing to normal form, in an equational theory of the typed lambda calculus (with product and unit types). Equivalently, in category-...
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Type checking, Hypothetical judgments, meaning explanations and computational type theory
We say that a system is a computational type theory if it is a type theory defined by not a bunch of inference rules, but some sort of Martin-Löfian meaning explanations (e.g. in the sense of NuPRL). ...
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Does the simply typed lambda calculus have general iteration?
In more expressive calculi such as System F, the Church numerals, by virtue of their design, allow for iteration over an arbitrary type. Can this effect be replicated in the simply typed case?
To be ...
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Characterisation of the BCIW definable functions
Given a full model of the simply typed lambda calculus, it's possible to characterise the lambda definable functions as those that are invariant under every "Kripke logical relation". (See here.)
I ...
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Enumerating all simply typed lambda terms of a given type
How can I enumerate all simply typed lambda terms which have a specified type?
More precisely, suppose we have the simply typed lambda calculus augmented with numerals and iteration, as described in ...
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Denotational semantics of System $F_\omega$ with recursive types and general recursion
Is there a denotational semantics for System $F_\omega$ in literature that supports both recursive types and general recursion?
I'm looking for a model of Ralf Hinze's variant of System $F_\omega$ [4]...
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How do you get the Calculus of Constructions from the other points in the Lambda Cube?
The CoC is said to be the culmination of all three dimensions of the Lambda Cube. This isn't apparent to me at all. I think I understand the individual dimensions, and the combination of any two seems ...
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Heyting algebra in simply typed lambda calculus
The Emil Jeřábek's comment in Can boolean algebra be expressed in simply typed lambda caclulus? give rise to the following question:
Can some non-trivial Heyting algebra be expressed in simply typed ...
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What is a canonical term of $\text{Id}_A(x,y)$ if $x$ is not jugdmentally identical to $y$?
In the context of constructive type theory, a term inhabiting some type is said to be in canonical form if it is explicitly built up using the constructors of that type.
Particularly, the only ...
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Observational Equivalence of open terms in PCF
The notion of observational equivalence is rather intuitive, but formally I'm having some doubts in the particular case of open terms.
Lets consider the simple case where the terms ...
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Functionality of a hierarchy of definable functions over $\mathbb{N}$
Let $T$ be the complete hierarchy of functions over $\mathbb{N}$. That is: $T$ = $\bigcup T_{\tau}$ for all simple types $\tau$ built up from the basic type $\mathbb{N}$, with $T_{\mathbb{N}} = \...
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Rendering of type-level computation
Programming languages with dependent types and/or higher-kinded types feature what might be called compile-time computation at the type-level. This is usually defined as follows (I'm omitting some ...
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Is there a typed lambda calculus which is consistent and Turing complete?
Is there a typed lambda calculus where the corresponding logic under the Curry-Howard correspondence is consistent, and where there are typeable lambda expressions for every computable function?
This ...
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Can typed lambda calculi express *all* algorithms below a given complexity?
I know that the complexity of most varieties of typed lambda calculi without the Y combinator primitive is bounded, i.e. only functions of bounded complexity can be expressed, with the bound becoming ...
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Commutativity of addition in polymorphic lambda calculus
In the article "Extensional models of polymorphism" by Breazu-Tannen and Coquand, natural numbers are presented using a Church-like encoding:
$polyint = \forall t . (t \to t) \to t \to t$
Addition ...
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Simply typed lambda calculus and higher order logic
What is the relation between simply typed lambda calculus and higher order logic?
Under Curry-Howard it seems that simply typed lambda calculus corresponds to propositional logic. How is it related ...
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What is a term of the type $\bot\rightarrow A$?
The sentence $\bot\rightarrow A$ is provable in intuitionistic logic for any type $A$. The proof is trivial:
\begin{align}
\bot&\vdash\bot \\
\hline
\bot&\vdash A \\
\hline
&\vdash\bot\...
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Historic Relationship between Typed Lambda Calculus and Lisp?
I was having a discussion with a friend recently (who is an advocate of strongly typed languages). He made the comment:
The inventors of Lambda Calculus always intended it to be typed.
Now we can ...
