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We present $\lambda_B$, a quantum-control $\lambda$-calculus that refines previous basis-sensitive systems by allowing abstractions to be expressed with respect to arbitrary -- possibly entangled -- bases. Each abstraction and let construct…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Octavio Malherbe , Rafael Romero

Turing's famous 'machine' framework provides an intuitively clear conception of 'computing with real numbers'. A recursive counterexample to a theorem shows that the theorem does not hold when restricted to computable objects. These…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Sam Sanders

We address the problem of complementing higher-order patterns without repetitions of existential variables. Differently from the first-order case, the complement of a pattern cannot, in general, be described by a pattern, or even by a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-10-22 Alberto Momigliano , Frank Pfenning

Circular (or cyclic) proofs have received increasing attention in recent years, and have been proposed as an alternative setting for studying (co)inductive reasoning. In particular, now several type systems based on circular reasoning have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Gianluca Curzi , Anupam Das

The linear-algebraic lambda-calculus and the algebraic lambda-calculus are untyped lambda-calculi extended with arbitrary linear combinations of terms. The former presents the axioms of linear algebra in the form of a rewrite system, while…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Pablo Buiras , Alejandro Díaz-Caro , Mauro Jaskelioff

Context-free session types describe structured patterns of communication on heterogeneously-typed channels, allowing the specification of protocols unconstrained by tail recursion. The enhanced expressive power provided by non-regular…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Gil Silva , Andreia Mordido , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

The lambda-calculus is a peculiar computational model whose definition does not come with a notion of machine. Unsurprisingly, implementations of the lambda-calculus have been studied for decades. Abstract machines are implementations…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Beniamino Accattoli

A multiparty session formalises a set of concurrent communicating participants. We propose a type system for multiparty sessions where some communications between participants can be ignored. This allows us to type some sessions with global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Franco Barbanera , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for linear system in presented. The proposed controller is an extension of the LMPC [1] and it aims to decrease the computational burden. The control scheme is reference-free and is able to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

Recursive calls over recursive data are useful for generating probability distributions, and probabilistic programming allows computations over these distributions to be expressed in a modular and intuitive way. Exact inference is also…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Chiang , Colin McDonald , Chung-chieh Shan

With a view towards models of quantum computation and/or the interpretation of linear logic, we define a functional language where all functions are linear operators by construction. A small step operational semantic (and hence an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Gilles Dowek

We introduce a framework for reasoning about the security of computer systems using modal logic. This framework is sufficiently expressive to capture a variety of known security properties, while also being intuitive and independent of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Matvey Soloviev , Musard Balliu , Roberto Guanciale

Capture calculus has recently been proposed as a solution to effect checking, achieved by tracking the captured references of terms in the types. Boxes, along with the box and unbox operations, are a crucial construct in capture calculus,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yichen Xu , Martin Odersky

We study an untyped lambda calculus with quantum data and classical control. This work stems from previous proposals by Selinger and Valiron and by Van Tonder. We focus on syntax and expressiveness, rather than (denotational) semantics. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ugo Dal Lago , Andrea Masini , Margherita Zorzi

To reversify an arbitrary sequential algorithm $A$, we gently instrument $A$ with bookkeeping machinery. The result is a step-for-step reversible algorithm that mimics $A$ step-for-step and stops exactly when $A$ does. Without loss of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Yuri Gurevich

The paper proposes an implicit (i.e., machine-independent) complexity approach to studying computation by polynomial-size, constant-depth circuits with gates counting modulo a constant through the lens of discrete ordinary differential…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Melissa Antonelli , Arnaud Durand , Rui Li

It is well known that general recursion cannot be expressed within Martin-Loef's type theory and various approaches have been proposed to overcome this problem still maintaining the termination of the computation of the typable terms. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-23 Claudio Sacerdoti Coen , Silvio Valentini

We introduce the abstract notions of "monadic operational semantics", a small-step semantics where computational effects are modularly modeled by a monad, and "type-and-effect system", including "effect types" whose interpretation lifts…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Francesco Dagnino , Paola Giannini , Elena Zucca

Quantum lambda calculus has been studied mainly as an idealized programming language -- the evaluation essentially corresponds to a deterministic abstract machine. Very little work has been done to develop a rewriting theory for quantum…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Claudia Faggian , Gaetan Lopez , Benoît Valiron

In a reversible language, any forward computation can be undone by a finite sequence of backward steps. Reversible computing has been studied in the context of different programming languages and formalisms, where it has been used for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Ivan Lanese , Naoki Nishida , Adrián Palacios , Germán Vidal