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In this paper we present a semantics for a linear algebraic lambda-calculus based on realizability. This semantics characterizes a notion of unitarity in the system, answering a long standing issue. We derive from the semantics a set of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Mauricio Guillermo , Alexandre Miquel , Benoît Valiron

We give a categorical semantics for a call-by-value linear lambda calculus. Such a lambda calculus was used by Selinger and Valiron as the backbone of a functional programming language for quantum computation. One feature of this lambda…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-01-08 Peter Selinger , Benoît Valiron

In this paper, we introduce and share the new concept of $\mathcal{MT}(\lambda )$-functions and its some characterizations.

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Wei-Shih Du

This is an introduction to calculus, and its applications to basic questions from physics. We first discuss the theory of functions $f:\mathbb R\to\mathbb R$, with the notion of continuity, and the construction of the derivative $f'(x)$ and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Teo Banica

Formal mathematics is mathematics done within the framework of a formal logic. It offers major benefits to mathematicians as well as to computing professionals, engineers, and scientists who use mathematics in their work. The standard…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-24 William M. Farmer

Using standard domain-theoretic fixed-points, we present an approach for defining recursive functions that are formulated in monadic style. The method works both in the simple option monad and the state-exception monad of Isabelle/HOL's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Alexander Krauss

A numeral system is an infinite sequence of different closed normal $\lambda$-terms intended to code the integers in $\lambda$-calculus. H. Barendregt has shown that if we can represent, for a numeral system, the functions : Successor,…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Karim Nour

Particle-style token machines are a way to interpret proofs and programs, when the latter are defined according to the principles of linear logic. In this paper, we show that token machines also make sense when the programs at hand are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Ugo Dal Lago , Margherita Zorzi

The continuous functional calculus is perhaps the most fundamental construction in the theory of operator algebras, especially $C^{*}$-algebras. Here we document our formalization of the continuous functional calculus in Lean, which…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Anatole Dedecker , Jireh Loreaux

Destination passing -- aka. out parameters -- is taking a parameter to fill rather than returning a result from a function. Due to its apparently imperative nature, destination passing has struggled to find its way to pure functional…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Thomas Bagrel , Arnaud Spiwack

In this paper we present a formal computational framework for modeling manipulation actions. The introduced formalism leads to semantics of manipulation action and has applications to both observing and understanding human manipulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Yezhou Yang , Yiannis Aloimonos , Cornelia Fermuller , Eren Erdal Aksoy

This tutorial introduces quantum computing with a focus on the applicability of formal methods in this relatively new domain. We describe quantum circuits and convey an understanding of their inherent combinatorial nature and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Arend-Jan Quist , Jingyi Mei , Tim Coopmans , Alfons Laarman

Auditing is an increasingly important operation for computer programming, for example in security (e.g. to enable history-based access control) and to enable reproducibility and accountability (e.g. provenance in scientific programming).…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Wilmer Ricciotti , James Cheney

Array programming languages allow for concise and generic formulations of numerical algorithms, thereby providing a huge potential for program optimisation such as fusion, parallelisation, etc. One of the restrictions that these languages…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Artjoms Sinkarovs , Sven-Bodo Scholz

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

Calculi with control operators have been studied as extensions of simple type theory. Real programming languages contain datatypes, so to really understand control operators, one should also include these in the calculus. As a first step in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Herman Geuvers , Robbert Krebbers , James McKinna

An introductory formal languages course exposes advanced undergraduate and early graduate students to automata theory, grammars, constructive proofs, computability, and decidability. Programming students find these topics to be challenging…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-17 Marco T. Morazán , Rosario Antunez

This thesis studies the categorical formalisation of quantum computing, through the prism of type theory, in a three-tier process. The first stage of our investigation involves the creation of the dagger lambda calculus, a lambda calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Philip Atzemoglou

This paper describes how one can implement distributed {\lambda}-calculus interpreter from scratch. At first, we describe how to implement a monadic parser, than the Krivine Machine is introduced for the interpretation part and as for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Alexandr Basov , Daniel de Carvalho , Manuel Mazzara

This paper is about a categorical approach to model a very simple Semantically Linear lambda calculus, named Sll-calculus. This is a core calculus underlying the programming language SlPCF. In particular, in this work, we introduce the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-03-30 Marco Gaboardi , Mauro Piccolo