English

Formalizing the Curry-Howard Correspondence

Logic 2019-12-24 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

The Curry-Howard Correspondence has a long history, and still is a topic of active research. Though there are extensive investigations into the subject, there doesn't seem to be a definitive formulation of this result in the level of generality that it deserves. In the current work, we introduce the formalism of p-institutions that could unify previous aproaches. We restate the tradicional correspondence between typed λ\lambda-calculi and propositional logics inside this formalism, and indicate possible directions in which it could foster new and more structured generalizations. Furthermore, we indicate part of a formalization of the subject in the programming-language Idris, as a demonstration of how such theorem-proving enviroments could serve mathematical research.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1912.10961,
  title  = {Formalizing the Curry-Howard Correspondence},
  author = {Juan Ferrer Meleiro and Hugo Luiz Mariano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.10961},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

26 pages. For the full source, see https://gitlab.com/juanmeleiro/ic.git or contact Juan Meleiro

R2 v1 2026-06-23T12:54:52.098Z