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Abstracts » Guidi

Ferruccio Guidi
Bologna

The Formal System lambda-delta

The formal system lambda-delta [1] is a typed lambda calculus that pursues unification of terms, types, environments and contexts while enjoying a well conceived meta-theory, which includes the commonly desired properties.

This system takes some features from the Automath-related calculi and some from the pure type systems, but it differs from both in that it does not include the \Pi construction while it provides for an abbreviation mechanism at the level of terms.

Because of these features, lambda-delta can serve as a formal specification language for the type theories that need a predicative foundation: for instance cTT (Martin-Lof) and mTT (Maietti-Sambin).

We will give an informal presentation of the calculus focusing on motivations, design features and main meta-theoretical properties.

[1] F. Guidi: The Formal System lambda-delta. To appear in ACM Transactions On Computational Logic. CoRR identifier cs/0611040.