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A denotational semantics for the symmetric interaction combinators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2007

DAMIANO MAZZA
DAMIANO MAZZA*
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Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy (UMR 6206), Campus de Luminy, Case 907 – 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France Email: mazza@iml.univ-mrs.fr Website: http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~mazza.
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Abstract

The symmetric interaction combinators are a variant of Lafont's interaction combinators. They enjoy a weaker universality property with respect to interaction nets, but are equally expressive. They are a model of deterministic distributed computation and share the good properties of Turing machines (elementary reductions) and of the λ-calculus (higher-order functions and parallel execution). We introduce a denotational semantics for this system, which is inspired by the relational semantics for linear logic, and prove an injectivity and full completeness result for it. We also consider the algebraic semantics defined by Lafont, and prove that the two are strongly related.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , June 2007 , pp. 527 - 562
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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