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A realizability interpretation of Church's simple theory of types

Ulrich Berger Orcid Logo, TIE HOU

Mathematical Structures in Computer Science, Volume: 27, Issue: 8, Pages: 1364 - 1385

Swansea University Author: Ulrich Berger Orcid Logo

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We present a realizability interpretation of an intuitionistic version of Church's Simple Theory of Types (CST) which can be viewed as a formalization of intuitionistic higher-order logic. Although definable in CST we include operators for monotone induction and coinduction and provide simple r...

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Published in: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
ISSN: 0960-1295 1469-8072
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21694
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Abstract: We present a realizability interpretation of an intuitionistic version of Church's Simple Theory of Types (CST) which can be viewed as a formalization of intuitionistic higher-order logic. Although definable in CST we include operators for monotone induction and coinduction and provide simple realizers for them. Realizers are formally represented in an untyped lambda-calculus with pairing and case-construct. We introduce a general notion of interpretation of one instance of the simply typed lambda calculus in another, and define realizability as an instance of such an interpretation. In this way, important syntactic properties of realizability (e.g. being well-behaved w.r.t. substitution) can be proven elegantly on an abstract lambda-calculus level.
Item Description: Special issue for the international conference "Constructivity, Computability, Continuity - from Logic to Algorithms (CCC 2013)"
Keywords: Realizability, Church's simple theory of types, Program extraction
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Issue: 8
Start Page: 1364
End Page: 1385