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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.12
Ohana Trees and Taylor Expansion for the λI-Calculus: No variable gets left behind or forgotten!

Authors: Rémy Cerda, Giulio Manzonetto, and Alexis Saurin

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 337, 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)

Abstract
Although the λI-calculus is a natural fragment of the λ-calculus, obtained by forbidding the erasure, its equational theories did not receive much attention. The reason is that all proper denotational models studied in the literature equate all non-normalizable λI-terms, whence the associated theory is not very informative. The goal of this paper is to introduce a previously unknown theory of the λI-calculus, induced by a notion of evaluation trees that we call "Ohana trees". The Ohana tree of a λI-term is an annotated version of its Böhm tree, remembering all free variables that are hidden within its meaningless subtrees, or pushed into infinity along its infinite branches. We develop the associated theories of program approximation: the first approach - more classic - is based on finite trees and continuity, the second adapts Ehrhard and Regnier’s Taylor expansion. We then prove a Commutation Theorem stating that the normal form of the Taylor expansion of a λI-term coincides with the Taylor expansion of its Ohana tree. As a corollary, we obtain that the equality induced by Ohana trees is compatible with abstraction and application. We conclude by discussing the cases of Lévy-Longo and Berarducci trees, and generalizations to the full λ-calculus.
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Rémy Cerda, Giulio Manzonetto, and Alexis Saurin. Ohana Trees and Taylor Expansion for the λI-Calculus: No variable gets left behind or forgotten!. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 12:1-12:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{cerda_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.12,
  author =	{Cerda, R\'{e}my and Manzonetto, Giulio and Saurin, Alexis},
  title =	{{Ohana Trees and Taylor Expansion for the \lambdaI-Calculus: No variable gets left behind or forgotten!}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-374-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{337},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236277},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: \lambda-calculus, program approximation, Taylor expansion, \lambdaI-calculus, persistent free variables, B\"{o}hm trees, Ohana trees}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4
Separating Terms by Means of Multi Types, Coinductively

Authors: Adrienne Lancelot

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 336, 30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024)

Abstract
Intersection type systems, as adequate models of the λ-calculus, induce an equational theory on terms, that we refer to as type equivalence. We give a new proof technique to coinductively characterize type equivalence. To do so, we explore a simple setting, namely weak head type equivalence, which is the equational theory induced by a weak head non-idempotent intersection type system. We prove a folklore result: weak head type equivalence coincides with Sangiorgi’s normal form bisimilarity. What is new in our development is that we only rely on coinductive program equivalences, bypassing the need to introduce term approximants, which were used in previous works characterizing type equivalence. The crucial part of this characterization is to show that type equivalent terms are normal form bisimilar: we do so by constructing shape typings that can only type terms of a specific normal form structure. Shape typings are a light form of principal types, a technique often used in intersection types to generate from one or few principal typing all possible typings of a term.
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Adrienne Lancelot. Separating Terms by Means of Multi Types, Coinductively. In 30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 336, pp. 4:1-4:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{lancelot:LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4,
  author =	{Lancelot, Adrienne},
  title =	{{Separating Terms by Means of Multi Types, Coinductively}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-376-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{336},
  editor =	{M{\o}gelberg, Rasmus Ejlers and van den Berg, Benno},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233660},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: lambda calculus, intersection types, program equivalence}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.20
Refutation of Sallé's Longstanding Conjecture

Authors: Benedetto Intrigila, Giulio Manzonetto, and Andrew Polonsky

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 84, 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2017)

Abstract
The lambda-calculus possesses a strong notion of extensionality, called "the omega-rule", which has been the subject of many investigations. It is a longstanding open problem whether the equivalence obtained by closing the theory of Böhm trees under the omega-rule is strictly included in Morris's original observational theory, as conjectured by Sallé in the seventies. In a recent work, Breuvart et al. have shown that Morris's theory satisfies the omega-rule. In this paper we demonstrate that the two aforementioned theories actually coincide, thus disproving Sallé's conjecture.
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Benedetto Intrigila, Giulio Manzonetto, and Andrew Polonsky. Refutation of Sallé's Longstanding Conjecture. In 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 84, pp. 20:1-20:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{intrigila_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.20,
  author =	{Intrigila, Benedetto and Manzonetto, Giulio and Polonsky, Andrew},
  title =	{{Refutation of Sall\'{e}'s Longstanding Conjecture}},
  booktitle =	{2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2017)},
  pages =	{20:1--20:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-047-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{84},
  editor =	{Miller, Dale},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.20},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-77236},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.20},
  annote =	{Keywords: lambda calculus, observational equivalence, B\"{o}hm trees, omega-rule}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.15
New Results on Morris's Observational Theory: The Benefits of Separating the Inseparable

Authors: Flavien Breuvart, Giulio Manzonetto, Andrew Polonsky, and Domenico Ruoppolo

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 52, 1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2016)

Abstract
Working in the untyped lambda calculus, we study Morris's lambda-theory H+. Introduced in 1968, this is the original extensional theory of contextual equivalence. On the syntactic side, we show that this lambda-theory validates the omega-rule, thus settling a long-standing open problem.On the semantic side, we provide sufficient and necessary conditions for relational graph models to be fully abstract for H+. We show that a relational graph model captures Morris's observational preorder exactly when it is extensional and lambda-Konig. Intuitively, a model is lambda-Konig when every lambda-definable tree has an infinite path which is witnessed by some element of the model. Both results follow from a weak separability property enjoyed by terms differing only because of some infinite eta-expansion, which is proved through a refined version of the Böhm-out technique.
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Flavien Breuvart, Giulio Manzonetto, Andrew Polonsky, and Domenico Ruoppolo. New Results on Morris's Observational Theory: The Benefits of Separating the Inseparable. In 1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 52, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{breuvart_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.15,
  author =	{Breuvart, Flavien and Manzonetto, Giulio and Polonsky, Andrew and Ruoppolo, Domenico},
  title =	{{New Results on Morris's Observational Theory: The Benefits of Separating the Inseparable}},
  booktitle =	{1st International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2016)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-010-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{52},
  editor =	{Kesner, Delia and Pientka, Brigitte},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-59924},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2016.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lambda calculus, relational models, fully abstract, B\"{o}hm-out, omega-rule}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2014.221
Extensionality of lambda-*

Authors: Andrew Polonsky

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 39, 20th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2014)

Abstract
We prove an extensionality theorem for the "type-in-type" dependent type theory with Sigma-types. We suggest that in type theory the notion of extensional equality be identified with the logical equivalence relation defined by induction on type structure.
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Andrew Polonsky. Extensionality of lambda-*. In 20th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2014). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 39, pp. 221-250, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{polonsky:LIPIcs.TYPES.2014.221,
  author =	{Polonsky, Andrew},
  title =	{{Extensionality of lambda-*}},
  booktitle =	{20th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2014)},
  pages =	{221--250},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-88-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{39},
  editor =	{Herbelin, Hugo and Letouzey, Pierre and Sozeau, Matthieu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2014.221},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-54995},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2014.221},
  annote =	{Keywords: Extensionality, logical relations, type theory, lambda calculus, reflection}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2015.143
A Coinductive Framework for Infinitary Rewriting and Equational Reasoning

Authors: Jörg Endrullis, Helle Hvid Hansen, Dimitri Hendriks, Andrew Polonsky, and Alexandra Silva

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 36, 26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2015)

Abstract
We present a coinductive framework for defining infinitary analogues of equational reasoning and rewriting in a uniform way. The setup captures rewrite sequences of arbitrary ordinal length, but it has neither the need for ordinals nor for metric convergence. This makes the framework especially suitable for formalizations in theorem provers.
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Jörg Endrullis, Helle Hvid Hansen, Dimitri Hendriks, Andrew Polonsky, and Alexandra Silva. A Coinductive Framework for Infinitary Rewriting and Equational Reasoning. In 26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 36, pp. 143-159, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{endrullis_et_al:LIPIcs.RTA.2015.143,
  author =	{Endrullis, J\"{o}rg and Hansen, Helle Hvid and Hendriks, Dimitri and Polonsky, Andrew and Silva, Alexandra},
  title =	{{A Coinductive Framework for Infinitary Rewriting and Equational Reasoning}},
  booktitle =	{26th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2015)},
  pages =	{143--159},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-85-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{36},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2015.143},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-51949},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2015.143},
  annote =	{Keywords: infinitary rewriting, coinduction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2011.16
Infinitary Rewriting Coinductively

Authors: Jörg Endrullis and Andrew Polonsky

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 19, 18th International Workshop on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2011)

Abstract
We provide a coinductive definition of strongly convergent reductions between infinite lambda terms. This approach avoids the notions of ordinals and metric convergence which have appeared in the earlier definitions of the concept. As an illustration, we prove the existence part of the infinitary standardization theorem. The proof is fully formalized in Coq using coinductive types. The paper concludes with a characterization of infinite lambda terms which reduce to themselves in a single beta step.
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Jörg Endrullis and Andrew Polonsky. Infinitary Rewriting Coinductively. In 18th International Workshop on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2011). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 19, pp. 16-27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)

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@InProceedings{endrullis_et_al:LIPIcs.TYPES.2011.16,
  author =	{Endrullis, J\"{o}rg and Polonsky, Andrew},
  title =	{{Infinitary Rewriting Coinductively}},
  booktitle =	{18th International Workshop on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2011)},
  pages =	{16--27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-49-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2013},
  volume =	{19},
  editor =	{Danielsson, Nils Anders and Nordstr\"{o}m, Bengt},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2011.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-38971},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2011.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: infinitary rewriting, coinduction, lambda calculus, standardization}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2011.458
Axiomatizing the Quote

Authors: Andrew Polonsky

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 12, Computer Science Logic (CSL'11) - 25th International Workshop/20th Annual Conference of the EACSL (2011)

Abstract
We study reflection in the Lambda Calculus from an axiomatic point of view. Specifically, we consider various properties that the quote operator must satisfy as a function on lambda terms. The most important of these is the existence of a definable left inverse, a so-called evaluator for the quote operator. Usually the quote operator encodes the syntax of a given term, and the evaluator proceeds by analyzing the syntax and reifying all constructors by their actual meaning in the calculus. Working in Combinatory Logic, Raymond Smullyan (1994) investigated which elements of the syntax must be accessible via the quote in order for an evaluator to exist. He asked three specific questions, to which we provide negative answers. On the positive side, we give a characterization of quotes which possess all of the desired properties, equivalently defined as being equitranslatable with a standard quote. As an application, we show that Scott's coding is not complete in this sense, but can be slightly modified to be such. This results in a minimal definition of a complete quoting for Combinatory Logic.
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Andrew Polonsky. Axiomatizing the Quote. In Computer Science Logic (CSL'11) - 25th International Workshop/20th Annual Conference of the EACSL. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 12, pp. 458-469, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)

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@InProceedings{polonsky:LIPIcs.CSL.2011.458,
  author =	{Polonsky, Andrew},
  title =	{{Axiomatizing the Quote}},
  booktitle =	{Computer Science Logic (CSL'11) - 25th International Workshop/20th Annual Conference of the EACSL},
  pages =	{458--469},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-32-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{12},
  editor =	{Bezem, Marc},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2011.458},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-32493},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2011.458},
  annote =	{Keywords: lambda calculus, combinatory logic, quote operator, enumerator}
}
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