Abstract
The infinitary lambda calculi pioneered by Kennaway et al. extend the basic lambda calculus by metric completion to infinite terms and reductions. Depending on the chosen metric, the res- ulting infinitary calculi exhibit different notions of strictness. To obtain infinitary normalisation and infinitary confluence properties for these calculi, Kennaway et al. extend β-reduction with infinitely many ‘⊥-rules’, which contract meaningless terms directly to ⊥. Three of the resulting Böhm reduction calculi have unique infinitary normal forms corresponding to Böhm-like trees.
In this paper we develop a corresponding theory of infinitary lambda calculi based on ideal completion instead of metric completion. We show that each of our calculi conservatively ex- tends the corresponding metric-based calculus. Three of our calculi are infinitarily normalising and confluent; their unique infinitary normal forms are exactly the Böhm-like trees of the cor- responding metric-based calculi. Our calculi dispense with the infinitely many ⊥-rules of the metric-based calculi. The fully non-strict calculus (called 111) consists of only β-reduction, while the other two calculi (called 001 and 101) require two additional rules that precisely state their strictness properties: λx.⊥ → ⊥ (for 001) and ⊥ M → ⊥ (for 001 and 101).
In this paper we develop a corresponding theory of infinitary lambda calculi based on ideal completion instead of metric completion. We show that each of our calculi conservatively ex- tends the corresponding metric-based calculus. Three of our calculi are infinitarily normalising and confluent; their unique infinitary normal forms are exactly the Böhm-like trees of the cor- responding metric-based calculi. Our calculi dispense with the infinitely many ⊥-rules of the metric-based calculi. The fully non-strict calculus (called 111) consists of only β-reduction, while the other two calculi (called 001 and 101) require two additional rules that precisely state their strictness properties: λx.⊥ → ⊥ (for 001) and ⊥ M → ⊥ (for 001 and 101).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 3rd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2018) |
Number of pages | 16 |
Publisher | Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik GmbH |
Publication date | Jul 2018 |
Pages | 8:1-8:16 |
Article number | 8 |
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Publication status | Published - Jul 2018 |
Event | International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 9 Jul 2018 → 12 Jul 2018 Conference number: 3 http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fscd2018/ |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction |
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Number | 3 |
Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Oxford |
Period | 09/07/2018 → 12/07/2018 |
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Keywords
- lambda calculus
- infinitary rewriting
- Böhm trees
- meaningless terms
- confluence