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We define two extensions of the typed linear lambda-calculus that yield minimal Turing-complete systems. The extensions are based on unbounded recursion in one case, and bounded recursion with minimisation in the other. We show that both…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Sandra Alves , Maribel Fernández , Mário Florido , Ian Mackie

In 2005, Abramsky introduced various linear/affine combinatory algebras of partial involutions over a suitable formal language, to discuss reversible computation in a game-theoretic setting. These algebras arise as instances of the general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Alberto Ciaffaglione , Furio Honsell , Marina Lenisa , Ivan Scagnetto

We introduce a proof language for Intuitionistic Multiplicative Additive Linear Logic (IMALL), extended with a modality B to capture mixed-state quantum computation. The language supports algebraic constructs such as linear combinations,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Kinnari Dave , Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Vladimir Zamdzhiev

We present an algorithm turning any term of a linear quantum $\lambda$-calculus into a quantum circuit. The essential ingredient behind the proposed algorithm is Girard's geometry of interaction, which, differently from its well-known uses…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Kostia Chardonnet , Ugo Dal Lago , Naohiko Hoshino , Paolo Pistone

A term calculus for the proofs in multiplicative-additive linear logic is introduced and motivated as a programming language for channel based concurrency. The term calculus is proved complete for a semantics in linearly distributive…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2010-03-03 J. R. B. Cockett , C. A. Pastro

Although unification can be used to implement a weak form of $\beta$-reduction, several linguistic phenomena are better handled by using some form of $\lambda$-calculus. In this paper we present a higher order feature description calculus…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Luis Damas , Nelma Moreira

This paper provides a call-by-name and a call-by-value term calculus, both of which have a Curry-Howard correspondence to the box fragment of the intuitionistic modal logic IK. The strong normalizability and the confluency of the calculi…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Yoshihiko Kakutani

Weak-head normalization is inconsistent with functional extensionality in the call-by-name $\lambda$-calculus. We explore this problem from a new angle via the conflict between extensionality and effects. Leveraging ideas from work on the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Philip Johnson-Freyd , Paul Downen , Zena M. Ariola

This paper presents a logical approach to the translation of functional calculi into concurrent process calculi. The starting point is a type system for the {\pi}-calculus closely related to linear logic. Decompositions of intuitionistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-07-22 Emmanuel Beffara

In this paper we investigate the Curry-Howard correspondence for constructive modal logic in light of the gap between the proof equivalences enforced by the lambda calculi from the literature and by the recently defined winning strategies…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Matteo Acclavio , Davide Catta , Federico Olimpieri

This paper provides a characterization of call-by-value solvability using call-by-value multi types. Our work is based on Accattoli and Paolini's characterization of call-by-value solvable terms as those terminating with respect to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Beniamino Accattoli , Giulio Guerrieri

Logical relations constitute a key method for reasoning about contextual equivalence of programs in higher-order languages. They are usually developed on a per-case basis, with a new theory required for each variation of the language or of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Sergey Goncharov , Stefan Milius , Stelios Tsampas , Henning Urbat

We introduce a probabilistic extension of Levy's Call-By-Push-Value. This extension consists simply in adding a " flipping coin " boolean closed atomic expression. This language can be understood as a major generalization of Scott's PCF…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Thomas Ehrhard , Christine Tasson

Over the last decades, deep neural networks based-models became the dominant paradigm in machine learning. Further, the use of artificial neural networks in symbolic learning has been seen as increasingly relevant recently. To study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 João Flach , Alvaro F. Moreira , Luis C. Lamb

Filinski constructed a symmetric lambda-calculus consisting of expressions and continuations which are symmetric, and functions which have duality. In his calculus, functions can be encoded to expressions and continuations using primitive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Tatsuya Abe , Daisuke Kimura

The lambda calculus with constructors is an extension of the lambda calculus with variadic constructors. It decomposes the pattern-matching a la ML into a case analysis on constants and a commutation rule between case and application…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Barbara Petit

Terms in the lambda-calculus can be represented as planar trees decorated with symbols for abstraction and application, and having variables as leaves. In this paper, we concentrate on the branches of such trees, rather than on the trees…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Rob Nederpelt , Ferruccio Guidi

This paper studies normalisation by evaluation for typed lambda calculus from a categorical and algebraic viewpoint. The first part of the paper analyses the lambda definability result of Jung and Tiuryn via Kripke logical relations and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Marcelo Fiore

A conversation with a large language model (LLM) is a sequence of prompts and responses, with each response generated from the preceding conversation. AI agents build such conversations automatically: given an initial human prompt, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zac Garby , Andrew D. Gordon , David Sands

A fully-automated algorithm is developed able to show that evaluation of a given untyped lambda-expression will terminate under CBV (call-by-value). The ``size-change principle'' from first-order programs is extended to arbitrary untyped…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Neil D. Jones , Nina Bohr