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Big-step normalisation

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

THORSTEN ALTENKIRCH  and
JAMES CHAPMAN
THORSTEN ALTENKIRCH
Affiliation:
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK (e-mail: txa@cs.nott.ac.uk)
JAMES CHAPMAN
Affiliation:
Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 21, EE-12618 Tallinn, Estonia (e-mail: james@cs.ioc.ee)
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Traditionally, decidability of conversion for typed λ-calculi is established by showing that small-step reduction is confluent and strongly normalising. Here we investigate an alternative approach employing a recursively defined normalisation function which we show to be terminating and which reflects and preserves conversion. We apply our approach to the simply typed λ-calculus with explicit substitutions and βη-equality, a system which is not strongly normalising. We also show how the construction can be extended to system T with the usual β-rules for the recursion combinator. Our approach is practical, since it does verify an actual implementation of normalisation which, unlike normalisation by evaluation, is first order. An important feature of our approach is that we are using logical relations to establish equational soundness (identity of normal forms reflects the equational theory), instead of the usual syntactic reasoning using the Church–Rosser property of a term rewriting system.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 19 , Issue 3-4 , July 2009 , pp. 311 - 333
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