A Computational Interpretation of Parametricity
Paper in proceeding, 2012

Reynolds' abstraction theorem has recently been extended to lambda-calculi with dependent types. In this paper, we show how this theorem can be internalized. More precisely, we describe an extension of Pure Type Systems with a special parametricity rule (with computational content), and prove fundamental properties such as Church-Rosser's and strong normalization. All instances of the abstraction theorem can be both expressed and proved in the calculus itself. Moreover, one can apply parametricity to the parametricity rule: parametricity is itself parametric.

dependent types

parametricity

lambda-calculi

type-theory

Author

Jean-Philippe Bernardy

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Technology (Chalmers)

Guilhem Moulin

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Computing Science (Chalmers)

IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. 27th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 25-28, 2012

1043-6871 (ISSN)

135-144
978-0-7695-4769-5 (ISBN)

Roots

Basic sciences

Subject Categories

Computer Science

DOI

10.1109/LICS.2012.25

ISBN

978-0-7695-4769-5

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10/7/2017