FLOC 2018: FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE 2018
How to count linear and affine closed lambda terms?

Author: Pierre Lescanne

Paper Information

Title:How to count linear and affine closed lambda terms?
Authors:Pierre Lescanne
Proceedings:Linearity/TLLA Pre-proceedings
Editors: Maribel Fernandez, Valeria de Paiva, Thomas Ehrhard and Lorenzo Tortora De Falco
Keywords:linear term, affine term, combinatoric, lambda calculus
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. Affine lambda-terms are lambda-terms in which each bound variable occurs at most once and linear lambda-terms are lambda-terms in which each bound variable occurs once and only once. In this paper we count the number of affine closed lambda-terms of size n, linear closed lambda-terms of size n, affine closed beta-normal forms of size n and linear closed beta-normal forms of size n, for several measures of the size of lambda-terms. From these formulas, we show how we can derive programs for generating all the terms of size n for each class. The foundation of all of this is a specific data structure, made of contexts in which one counts all the holes at each level of abstractions by lambda's.

Pages:6
Talk:Jul 08 09:20 (Session 34J)
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