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On Upper Bounds on the Church-Rosser Theorem

Logic in Computer Science 2017-01-04 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

The Church-Rosser theorem in the type-free lambda-calculus is well investigated both for beta-equality and beta-reduction. We provide a new proof of the theorem for beta-equality with no use of parallel reductions, but simply with Takahashi's translation (Gross-Knuth strategy). Based on this, upper bounds for reduction sequences on the theorem are obtained as the fourth level of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy.

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@article{arxiv.1701.00637,
  title  = {On Upper Bounds on the Church-Rosser Theorem},
  author = {Ken-etsu Fujita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00637},
  year   = {2017}
}

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In Proceedings WPTE 2016, arXiv:1701.00233