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First-Order Store and Visibility in Name-Passing Calculi

Authors Daniel Hirschkoff , Iwan Quémerais , Davide Sangiorgi

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  • Theory of computation → Process calculi
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  • process calculi
  • behavioural equivalence
  • type system

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Abstract

The π-calculus is the paradigmatical name-passing calculus. While being purely name-passing, it allows the representation of higher-order functions and store.
We study how π-calculus processes can be controlled so that computations can only involve storage of first-order values. The discipline is enforced by a type system that is based on the notion of visibility, coming from game semantics. We discuss the impact of visibility on the behavioural theory. We propose characterisations of may-testing and barbed equivalence, based on (variants of) trace equivalence and labelled bisimilarity, in the case where computation is sequential, and in the case where computation is well-bracketed.

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Daniel Hirschkoff, Iwan Quémerais, and Davide Sangiorgi. First-Order Store and Visibility in Name-Passing Calculi. In 36th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 348, pp. 23:1-23:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2025.23

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Daniel Hirschkoff
  • LIP, ENS de Lyon, France
Iwan Quémerais
  • LIP, ENS de Lyon, France
Davide Sangiorgi
  • Università di Bologna, Italy
  • INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France

Funding

Work partly supported by the MIUR-PRIN project "Resource Awareness in Programming: Algebra, Rewriting, and Analysis" (RAP, ID P2022HXNSC).

Acknowledgements

We have benefited from discussions with G. Jaber and E. Prebet.

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