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This paper provides a general account of the notion of recursive program schemes, studying both uninterpreted and interpreted solutions. It can be regarded as the category-theoretic version of the classical area of algebraic semantics. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-01-26 Stefan Milius , Lawrence S. Moss

Godel's theory T can be understood as a theory of the simply-typed lambda calculus that is extended to include the constant 0, the successor function S, and the operator R_tau for primitive recursion on objects of type tau. It is known that…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Matthew P. Szudzik

The celebrated Trakhtenbrot's theorem states that the set of finitely valid sentences of first-order logic is not computably enumerable. In this note we will extend this theorem by proving that the finite satisfiability problem of any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Reijo Jaakkola

In this paper, we highlight a new computational aspect of Nonstandard Analysis relating to higher-order computability theory. In particular, we prove that the Gandy-Hyland functional equals a primitive recursive functional involving…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Sam Sanders

We conclude from Goedel's Theorem VII of his seminal 1931 paper that every recursive function f(x_{1}, x_{2}) is representable in the first-order Peano Arithmetic PA by a formula [F(x_{1}, x_{2}, x_{3})] which is algorithmically verifiable,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-12-25 Bhupinder Singh Anand

We prove that the pattern matching problem is undecidable in polymorphic lambda-calculi (as Girard's system F) and calculi supporting inductive types (as G{\"o}del's system T) by reducing Hilbert's tenth problem to it. More generally…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Gilles Dowek

We show that topological Quillen homology of algebras and modules over operads in symmetric spectra can be calculated by realizations of simplicial bar constructions. Working with several model category structures, we give a homotopical…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 John E. Harper

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

Discrete structures are currently second-class in differentiable programming. Since functions over discrete structures lack overt derivatives, differentiable programs do not differentiate through them and limit where they can be used. For…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Joey Velez-Ginorio , Nada Amin , Konrad Kording , Steve Zdancewic

Trellises are crucial graphical representations of codes. While conventional trellises are well understood, the general theory of (tail-biting) trellises is still under development. Iterative decoding concretely motivates such theory. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-27 David Conti , Nigel Boston

In this article, we will show that uncomputability is a relative property not only of oracle Turing machines, but also of subrecursive classes. We will define the concept of a Turing submachine, and a recursive relative version for the Busy…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Felipe S. Abrahão

Functors with an instance of the Traversable type class can be thought of as data structures which permit a traversal of their elements. This has been made precise by the correspondence between traversable functors and finitary containers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Gershom Bazerman

We provide a sound and relatively complete Hoare-like proof system for reasoning about partial correctness of recursive procedures in presence of local variables and the call-by-value parameter mechanism, and in which the correctness proofs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Krzysztof R. Apt , Frank S. de Boer

We conjecture that for a strongly minimal theory T in a finite signature satisfying the Zilber Trichotomy, there are only three possibilities for the recursive spectrum of T: all countable models of T are recursively presentable; none of…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Uri Andrews , Alice Medvedev

Reverse mathematics studies which subsystems of second order arithmetic are equivalent to key theorems of ordinary, non-set-theoretic mathematics. The main philosophical application of reverse mathematics proposed thus far is foundational…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Benedict Eastaugh

This paper presents a new abstract method for proving lower bounds in computational complexity. Based on the notion of topological and measurable entropy for dynamical systems, it is shown to generalise three previous lower bounds results…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Thomas Seiller , Luc Pellissier , Ulysse Léchine

The Ackermann function is a famous total recursive binary function on the natural numbers. It is the archetypal example of such a function that is not primitive recursive, in the sense of classical recursion theory. However, and in seeming…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Baltasar Trancón y Widemann

Recursive blocked algorithms have proven to be highly efficient at the numerical solution of the Sylvester matrix equation and its generalizations. In this work, we show that these algorithms extend in a seamless fashion to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Minhong Chen , Daniel Kressner

Given a sound first-order p-time theory $T$ capable of formalizing syntax of first-order logic we define a p-time function $g_T$ that stretches all inputs by one bit and we use its properties to show that $T$ must be incomplete. We leave it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jan Krajicek

During the last twenty years or so a wide range of realizability interpretations of classical analysis have been developed. In many cases, these are achieved by extending the base interpreting system of primitive recursive functionals with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Thomas Powell