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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2021.5
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167744
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16774/
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Di Gianantonio, Pietro ; Lenisa, Marina

Principal Types as Lambda Nets

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Abstract

We show that there are connections between principal type schemata, cut-free λ-nets, and normal forms of the λ-calculus, and hence there are correspondences between the normalisation algorithms of the above structures, i.e. unification of principal types, cut-elimination of λ-nets, and normalisation of λ-terms. Once the above correspondences have been established, properties of the typing system, such as typability, subject reduction, and inhabitation, can be derived from properties of λ-nets, and vice-versa. We illustrate the above pattern on a specific type assignment system, we study principal types for this system, and we show that they correspond to λ-nets with a non-standard notion of cut-elimination. Properties of the type system are then derived from results on λ-nets.

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@InProceedings{digianantonio_et_al:LIPIcs.TYPES.2021.5,
  author =	{Di Gianantonio, Pietro and Lenisa, Marina},
  title =	{{Principal Types as Lambda Nets}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2021)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-254-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{239},
  editor =	{Basold, Henning and Cockx, Jesper and Ghilezan, Silvia},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16774},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167744},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2021.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lambda calculus, Principal types, Linear logic, Lambda nets, Normalization, Cut elimination}
}

Keywords: Lambda calculus, Principal types, Linear logic, Lambda nets, Normalization, Cut elimination
Collection: 27th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2021)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 04.08.2022

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