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Cantor's ordinal numbers, a powerful extension of the natural numbers, are a cornerstone of set theory. They can be used to reason about the termination of processes, prove the consistency of logical systems, and justify some of the core…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tom de Jong , Nicolai Kraus , Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg , Chuangjie Xu

The importance of transformations and normal forms in logic programming, and generally in computer science, is well documented. This paper investigates transformations and normal forms in the context of Defeasible Logic, a simple but…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-16 G. Antoniou , D. Billington , G. Governatori , M. J. Maher

To date, work on formalizing connectionist computation in a way that is at least Turing-complete has focused on recurrent architectures and developed equivalences to Turing machines or similar super-Turing models, which are of more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Anthony Di Franco

Boyer and Moore have discussed a recursive function that puts conditional expressions into normal form [1]. It is difficult to prove that this function terminates on all inputs. Three termination proofs are compared: (1) using a measure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Lawrence C. Paulson

Implicit computational complexity, which aims at characterizing complexity classes by machine-independent means, has traditionally been based, on the one hand, on programs and deductive formalisms for free algebras, and on the other hand on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-12 Daniel Leivant , Jean-Yves Marion

Computability theory is a discipline in the intersection of computer science and mathematical logic where the fundamental question is: given two mathematical objects X and Y, does X compute Y in principle? In case X and Y are real numbers,…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-12 Sam Sanders

We define an extension of lambda-calculus with dependents types that enables us to encode transparent and opaque probabilistic programs and prove a strong normalisation result for it by a reducibility technique. While transparent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Francesco A. Genco

Consider a universal Turing machine that produces a partial or total function (or a binary stream), based on the answers to the binary queries that it makes during the computation. We study the probability that the machine will produce a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-28 George Barmpalias , Douglas Cenzer , Christopher P. Porter

The field of implicit complexity has recently produced several bounded-complexity programming languages. This kind of language allows to implement exactly the functions belonging to a certain complexity class. We here present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Aloïs Brunel , Antoine Madet

We initiate the study of computable presentations of real and complex C*-algebras under the program of effective metric structure theory. With the group situation as a model, we develop corresponding notions of recursive presentations and…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Alec Fox

In recent years we have explored using Haskell alongside a traditional mathematical formalism in our large-enrolment university course on topics including logic and formal languages, aiming to offer our students a programming perspective on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Matthew Farrugia-Roberts , Bryn Jeffries , Harald Søndergaard

Users of program analyses expect that results change predictably in response to changes in their programs, but many analyses fail to provide such robustness. This paper introduces a theoretical framework that provides a unified language to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zachary Kincaid , Shaowei Zhu

One-way functions are fundamental to classical cryptography and their existence remains a longstanding problem in computational complexity theory. Recently, a provable quantum one-way function has been identified, which maintains its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Hua-Lei Yin

Martin-L\"of's Intuitionistic Theory of Types is becoming popular for formal reasoning about computer programs. To handle recursion schemes other than primitive recursion, a theory of well-founded relations is presented. Using primitive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Lawrence C. Paulson

Termination property of functions is an important issue in computability theory. In this paper, we show that repeated iterations of a function can induce an order amongst the elements of its domain set. Hasse diagram of the poset, thus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Abhinav Aggarwal , Padam Kumar

We describe an ACL2 package for defining partial recursive functions that also supports efficient execution. While packages for defining partial recursive functions already exist for other theorem provers, they often require inductive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-01 David Greve , Konrad Slind

This paper explores formalizing Geometric (or Clifford) algebras into the Lean 3 theorem prover, building upon the substantial body of work that is the Lean mathematics library, mathlib. As we use Lean source code to demonstrate many of our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Eric Wieser , Utensil Song

Constructive type theory combines logic and programming in one language. This is useful both for reasoning about programs written in type theory, as well as for reasoning about other programming languages inside type theory. It is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Philipp Jan Andries Stassen , Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg , Maaike Zwart , Alejandro Aguirre , Lars Birkedal

This paper reviews the functional aspects of statistical learning theory. The main point under consideration is the nature of the hypothesis set when no prior information is available but data. Within this framework we first discuss about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-25 Stephane Canu , Xavier Mary , Alain Rakotomamonjy

We investigate the possibilities to calculate vector partition functions by means of iterated partial fraction decomposition, as suggested by Beck (2004). Particularly, for an important type of families of rational functions, we describe an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-08 Thomas Bliem