Contextual equivalence in lambda-calculi extended with letrec and with a parametric polymorphic type system

  • This paper describes a method to treat contextual equivalence in polymorphically typed lambda-calculi, and also how to transfer equivalences from the untyped versions of lambda-calculi to their typed variant, where our specific calculus has letrec, recursive types and is nondeterministic. An addition of a type label to every subexpression is all that is needed, together with some natural constraints for the consistency of the type labels and well-scopedness of expressions. One result is that an elementary but typed notion of program transformation is obtained and that untyped contextual equivalences also hold in the typed calculus as long as the expressions are well-typed. In order to have a nice interaction between reduction and typing, some reduction rules have to be accompanied with a type modification by generalizing or instantiating types.

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Author:Manfred Schmidt-SchaußORCiDGND, David SabelORCiDGND, Frederik Harwath
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-67642
URL:http://www.ki.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/papers/frank/poly-type-IB36.pdf
Parent Title (English):Technical report Frank / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Institut für Informatik ; 36
Series (Serial Number):Technical report Frank / Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Institut für Informatik (36)
Publisher:Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Univ., Fachbereich Informatik und Mathematik, Inst. für Informatik, Research group for Artificial Intelligence and Software Technology
Place of publication:Frankfurt [am Main]
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2009
Year of first Publication:2009
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2009/07/07
Page Number:26
First Page:1
Last Page:26
HeBIS-PPN:214629732
Institutes:Informatik und Mathematik / Informatik
Dewey Decimal Classification:0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht