English

On sets of terms having a given intersection type

Logic in Computer Science 2023-06-22 v7

Abstract

Working in a variant of the intersection type assignment system of Coppo, Dezani-Ciancaglini and Venneri [1981], we prove several facts about sets of terms having a given intersection type. Our main result is that every strongly normalizing term M admits a *uniqueness typing*, which is a pair (Γ,A)(\Gamma,A) such that 1) ΓM:A\Gamma \vdash M : A 2) ΓN:AM=βηN\Gamma \vdash N : A \Longrightarrow M =_{\beta\eta} N We also discuss several presentations of intersection type algebras, and the corresponding choices of type assignment rules. Moreover, we show that the set of closed terms with a given type is uniformly separable, and, if infinite, forms an adequate numeral system. The proof of this fact uses an internal version of the B\"ohm-out technique, adapted to terms of a given intersection type.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.08169,
  title  = {On sets of terms having a given intersection type},
  author = {Andrew Polonsky and Richard Statman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.08169},
  year   = {2023}
}
R2 v1 2026-06-23T04:14:11.282Z