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We give an exposition of the semantics of the simply-typed lambda-calculus, and its linear and ordered variants, using multi-ary structures. We define universal properties for multicategories, and use these to derive familiar rules for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Philip Saville

Session types have emerged as a typing discipline for communication protocols. Existing calculi with session types come equipped with many different primitives that combine communication with the introduction or elimination of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Peter Thiemann , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

The rewriting system sigma is the set of rules propagating explicit substitutions in the lambda-calculus with explicit substitutions. In this note, we prove the undecidability of unification modulo sigma.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Gilles Dowek

On the topic of probabilistic rewriting, there are several works studying both termination and confluence of different systems. While working with a lambda calculus modelling quantum computation, we found a system with probabilistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Rafael Romero , Alejandro Díaz-Caro

LLMs are increasingly used as general-purpose reasoners, but long inputs remain bottlenecked by a fixed context window. Recursive Language Models (RLMs) address this by externalising the prompt and recursively solving subproblems. Yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Amartya Roy , Rasul Tutunov , Xiaotong Ji , Matthieu Zimmer , Haitham Bou-Ammar

We prove that orthogonal constructor term rewrite systems and lambda-calculus with weak (i.e., no reduction is allowed under the scope of a lambda-abstraction) call-by-value reduction can simulate each other with a linear overhead. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Ugo Dal Lago , Simone Martini

We propose a categorial grammar based on classical multiplicative linear logic. This can be seen as an extension of abstract categorial grammars (ACG) and is at least as expressive. However, constituents of {\it linear logic grammars (LLG)}…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Sergey Slavnov

Substitutions play a crucial role in a wide range of contexts, from analyzing the dynamics of social opinions and conducting mathematical computations to engaging in game-theoretical analysis. For many situations, considering one-step…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Yaxin Tu , Sujata Ghosh , Fenrong Liu , Dazhu Li

We introduce a new nameless representation of lambda terms inspired by ordered logic. At a lambda abstraction, number and relative position of all occurrences of the bound variable are stored, and application carries the additional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-02 Andreas Abel , Nicolai Kraus

Extending the lambda-calculus with a construct for sharing, such as let expressions, enables a special representation of terms: iterated applications are decomposed by introducing sharing points in between any two of them, reducing to the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Beniamino Accattoli , Andrea Condoluci , Giulio Guerrieri , Claudio Sacerdoti Coen

A double occurrence word $w$ over a finite alphabet $\Sigma$ is a word in which each alphabet letter appears exactly twice. Such words arise naturally in the study of topology, graph theory, and combinatorics. Recently, double occurrence…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Jonathan Burns , Tilahun Muche

Linear and substructural types are powerful tools, but adding them to standard functional programming languages often means introducing extra annotations and typing machinery. We propose a lightweight substructural type system design that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Edward Gan , Jesse A. Tov , Greg Morrisett

We study increasingly expressive type systems, from $F^\mu$ -- an extension of the polymorphic lambda calculus with equirecursive types -- to $F^{\mu;}_\omega$ -- the higher-order polymorphic lambda calculus with equirecursive types and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Diana Costa , Andreia Mordido , Diogo Poças , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

We revisit the static dependency pair method for proving termination of higher-order term rewriting and extend it in a number of ways: (1) We introduce a new rewrite formalism designed for general applicability in termination proving of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Carsten Fuhs , Cynthia Kop

We give an algebraic characterization of the syntax and semantics of a class of simply-typed languages, such as the language PCF: we characterize simply-typed binding syntax equipped with reduction rules via a universal property, namely as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-08-28 Benedikt Ahrens

Instead of developing a customized typed lambda-calculus for each theory, we attempt to design a general parametric calculus that permits to express the proofs of any theory. This way, the problem of expressing proofs in the lambda-calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Gilles Dowek

We describe a realizability framework for classical first-order logic in which realizers live in (a model of) typed {\lambda}{\mu}-calculus. This allows a direct interpretation of classical proofs, avoiding the usual negative translation to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Valentin Blot

The Calculus of Audited Units (CAU) is a typed lambda calculus resulting from a computational interpretation of Artemov's Justification Logic under the Curry-Howard isomorphism; it extends the simply typed lambda calculus by providing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Wilmer Ricciotti , James Cheney

This thesis is devoted to the study of a calculus that describes the application of conditional rewriting rules and the obtained results at the same level of representation. We introduce the rewriting calculus, also called the rho-calculus,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Horatiu Cirstea

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