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This paper introduces an expressive class of quotient-inductive types, called QW-types. We show that in dependent type theory with uniqueness of identity proofs, even the infinitary case of QW-types can be encoded using the combination of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Marcelo Fiore , Andrew M. Pitts , S. C. Steenkamp

In this thesis we give an algebraic characterization of the syntax and semantics of simply-typed languages. More precisely, we characterize simply-typed binding syntax equipped with reduction rules via a universal property, namely as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Benedikt Ahrens

This paper provides an induction rule that can be used to prove properties of data structures whose types are inductive, i.e., are carriers of initial algebras of functors. Our results are semantic in nature and are inspired by Hermida and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Neil Ghani , Patricia Johann , Clement Fumex

We prove an induction theorem for the higher algebraic K-groups of group algebras $kG$ of finite groups $G$ over characteristic $p$ finite fields $k$. For a certain class of finite groups, which we call $p$-isolated, this reduces…

K-Theory and Homology · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Chase Vogeli

Many formal languages of contemporary mathematical music theory -- particularly those employing category theory -- are powerful but cumbersome: ideas that are conceptually simple frequently require expression through elaborate categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Drew Flieder

Initial semantics aims to model inductive structures and their properties, and to provide them with recursion principles respecting these properties. An ubiquitous example is the fold operator for lists. We are concerned with initial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Benedikt Ahrens , Ambroise Lafont , Thomas Lamiaux

We develop a theory of adjunctions in semigroup categories, i.e. monoidal categories without a unit object. We show that a rigid semigroup category is promonoidal, and thus one can naturally adjoin a unit object to it. This extends the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-28 Mateusz Stroiński

Models of dependent type theories are contextual categories with some additional structure. We prove that if a theory $T$ has enough structure, then the category $T\text{-}\mathbf{Mod}$ of its models carries the structure of a model…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Valery Isaev

We present the definition of the logical framework TF, the Type Framework. TF is a lambda-free logical framework; it does not include lambda-abstraction or product kinds. We give formal proofs of several results in the metatheory of TF, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-11-18 Robin Adams

This work presents a novel systematic methodology to analyse the capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) with feedback from a formal inference engine, on logic theory induction. The analysis is complexity-graded w.r.t.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 João Pedro Gandarela , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

We extend the constructive dependent type theory of the Logical Framework $\mathsf{LF}$ with monadic, dependent type constructors indexed with predicates over judgements, called Locks. These monads capture various possible proof attitudes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Furio Honsell , Luigi Liquori , Petar Maksimovic , Ivan Scagnetto

We present a soundness theorem for a dependent type theory with context constants with respect to an indexed category of (finite, abstract) simplical complexes. The point of interest for computer science is that this category can be seen to…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Henrik Forssell , Håkon Robbestad Gylterud , David I. Spivak

Automatically inducing the syntactic part-of-speech categories for words in text is a fundamental task in Computational Linguistics. While the performance of unsupervised tagging models has been slowly improving, current state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Greg Dubbin , Phil Blunsom

Propositional type theory, first studied by Henkin, is the restriction of simple type theory to a single base type that is interpreted as the set of the two truth values. We show that two constants (falsity and implication) suffice for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Mark Kaminski , Gert Smolka

Suppose we are given a graph and want to show a property for all its cycles (closed chains). Induction on the length of cycles does not work since sub-chains of a cycle are not necessarily closed. This paper derives a principle reminiscent…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Nicolai Kraus , Jakob von Raumer

We present a type theory with some proof-irrelevance built into the conversion rule. We argue that this feature is useful when type theory is used as the logical formalism underlying a theorem prover. We also show a close relation with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Benjamin Werner

In the pure Calculus of Constructions (CC) one can define data types and function over these, and there is a powerful higher order logic to reason over these functions and data types. This is due to the combination of impredicativity and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Herman Geuvers

Categories are coreflectively embedded in multicategories via the "discrete cocone" construction, the right adjoint being given by the monoid construction. Furthermore, the adjunction lifts to the "cartesian level": preadditive categories…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-11 Claudio Pisani

This paper studies emulation of induction by coinduction in a call-by-name language with control operators. Since it is known that call-by-name programming languages with control operators cannot have general initial algebras, interaction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Yoshihiko Kakutani , Daisuke Kimura

This is the fourth in a series of papers extending Martin-L\"of's meaning explanation of dependent type theory to higher-dimensional types. In this installment, we show how to define cubical type systems supporting a general schema of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Evan Cavallo , Robert Harper