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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.50
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109945
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10994/
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Clairambault, Pierre ; Murawski, Andrzej S.

On the Expressivity of Linear Recursion Schemes

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Abstract

We investigate the expressive power of higher-order recursion schemes (HORS) restricted to linear types. Two formalisms are considered: multiplicative additive HORS (MAHORS), which feature both linear function types and products, and multiplicative HORS (MHORS), based on linear function types only.
For MAHORS, we establish an equi-expressivity result with a variant of tree-stack automata. Consequently, we can show that MAHORS are strictly more expressive than first-order HORS, that they are incomparable with second-order HORS, and that the associated branch languages lie at the third level of the collapsible pushdown hierarchy.
In the multiplicative case, we show that MHORS are equivalent to a special kind of pushdown automata. It follows that any MHORS can be translated to an equivalent first-order MHORS in polynomial time. Further, we show that MHORS generate regular trees and can be translated to equivalent order-0 HORS in exponential time. Consequently, MHORS turn out to have the same expressive power as 0-HORS but they can be exponentially more concise.
Our results are obtained through a combination of techniques from game semantics, the geometry of interaction and automata theory.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{clairambault_et_al:LIPIcs:2019:10994,
  author =	{Pierre Clairambault and Andrzej S. Murawski},
  title =	{{On the Expressivity of Linear Recursion Schemes}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Peter Rossmanith and Pinar Heggernes and Joost-Pieter Katoen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10994},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109945},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: higher-order recursion schemes, linear logic, game semantics, geometry of interaction}
}

Keywords: higher-order recursion schemes, linear logic, game semantics, geometry of interaction
Collection: 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 20.08.2019

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