Categorical Models of Abadi-Plotkin's logic for parametricity

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    Abstract

    We propose a new category-theoretic formulation of relational parametricity based on a logic for reasoning about parametricity given by Abadi and Plotkin (Plotkin and Abadi, 1993). The logic can be used to reason about parametric models, such that we may prove consequences of parametricity that to our knowledge have not been proved before for
    existing category-theoretic notions of relational parametricity. We provide examples of parametric models and we describe a way of constructing parametric models from given models of the second-order lambda calculus.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalMathematical Structures in Computer Science
    Volume15
    Issue number4
    Pages (from-to)709-772
    Number of pages64
    ISSN0960-1295
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Keywords

    • Abadi-Plotkin logic
    • Categorical models
    • Parametricity
    • Theoretical computer science

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