10 Search Results for "Sterling, Jonathan"


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What Does It Take to Certify a Conversion Checker?

Authors: Meven Lennon-Bertrand

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


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We report on a detailed exploration of the properties of conversion (definitional equality) in dependent type theory, with the goal of certifying decision procedures for it. While in that context the property of normalisation has attracted the most light, we instead emphasize the importance of injectivity properties, showing that they alone are both crucial and sufficient to certify most desirable properties of conversion checkers. We also explore the certification of a fully untyped conversion checker, with respect to a typed specification, and show that the story is mostly unchanged, although the exact injectivity properties needed are subtly different.

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Meven Lennon-Bertrand. What Does It Take to Certify a Conversion Checker?. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 27:1-27:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{lennonbertrand:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.27,
  author =	{Lennon-Bertrand, Meven},
  title =	{{What Does It Take to Certify a Conversion Checker?}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:23},
  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.2025.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236428},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dependent types, Bidirectional typing, Certified software}
}
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Implementing a Type Theory with Observational Equality, Using Normalisation by Evaluation

Authors: Matthew Sirman, Meven Lennon-Bertrand, and Neel Krishnaswami

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


Abstract
We report on an experimental implementation in Haskell of a dependent type theory featuring an observational equality type, based on Pujet et al.’s CCobs. We use normalisation by evaluation to produce an efficient normalisation function, which is used to implement a bidirectional type checker. To allow for greater expressivity, we extend the core CCobs calculus with quotient types and inductive types. To make the system usable, we explore various proof-assistant features, notably a rudimentary version of a "hole" system similar to Agda’s. While rather crude, this experience should inform other, more substantial implementation efforts of observational equality.

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Matthew Sirman, Meven Lennon-Bertrand, and Neel Krishnaswami. Implementing a Type Theory with Observational Equality, Using Normalisation by Evaluation. In 30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 336, pp. 5:1-5:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{sirman_et_al:LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.5,
  author =	{Sirman, Matthew and Lennon-Bertrand, Meven and Krishnaswami, Neel},
  title =	{{Implementing a Type Theory with Observational Equality, Using Normalisation by Evaluation}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:22},
  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.2024.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233673},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dependent type theory, Bidirectional typing, Observational equality, Normalisation by evaluation}
}
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Formalizing Equivalences Without Tears

Authors: Tom de Jong

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


Abstract
This expository note describes two convenient techniques in the context of homotopy type theory for proving - and formalizing - that a given map is an equivalence. The first technique decomposes the map as a series of basic equivalences, while the second refines this approach using the 3-for-2 property of equivalences. The techniques are illustrated by proving a basic result in synthetic homotopy theory.

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Tom de Jong. Formalizing Equivalences Without Tears. In 30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 336, pp. 1:1-1:6, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{dejong:LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.1,
  author =	{de Jong, Tom},
  title =	{{Formalizing Equivalences Without Tears}},
  booktitle =	{30th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2024)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:6},
  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.2024.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233632},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2024.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: 3-for-2 property, 2-out-of-3 property, definitional equality, equivalence, formalization of mathematics, synthetic homotopy theory, type theory}
}
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Lightweight Diagramming for Lightweight Formal Methods: A Grounded Language Design

Authors: Siddhartha Prasad, Ben Greenman, Tim Nelson, and Shriram Krishnamurthi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 333, 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025)


Abstract
Tools such as Alloy enable users to incrementally define, explore, verify, and diagnose specifications for complex systems. A critical component of these tools is a visualizer that lets users graphically explore generated models. As we show, however, a default visualizer that knows nothing about the domain can be unhelpful and can even actively violate presentational and cognitive principles. At the other extreme, full-blown custom visualization requires significant effort as well as knowledge that a tool user might not possess. Custom visualizations can also exhibit bad (even silent) failures. This paper charts a middle ground between the extremes of default and fully-customizable visualization. We capture essential domain information for lightweight diagramming, embodying this in a language. To identify key elements of lightweight diagrams, we ground the language design in both the cognitive science research on diagrams and in a corpus of 58 custom visualizations. We distill from these sources a small set of orthogonal primitives, and use the primitives to guide a diagramming language called Cope-and-Drag (CnD). We evaluate it on sample tasks, three user studies, and performance, and find that short CnD specifications consistently improve model comprehension over the Alloy default. CnD thus defines a new point in the design space of diagramming: a language that is lightweight, effective, and driven by sound principles.

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Siddhartha Prasad, Ben Greenman, Tim Nelson, and Shriram Krishnamurthi. Lightweight Diagramming for Lightweight Formal Methods: A Grounded Language Design. In 39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 333, pp. 26:1-26:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{prasad_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.26,
  author =	{Prasad, Siddhartha and Greenman, Ben and Nelson, Tim and Krishnamurthi, Shriram},
  title =	{{Lightweight Diagramming for Lightweight Formal Methods: A Grounded Language Design}},
  booktitle =	{39th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2025)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:29},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-373-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{333},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-233187},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2025.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: formal methods, diagramming, visualization, language design}
}
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Two-Dimensional Kripke Semantics I: Presheaves

Authors: G. A. Kavvos

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 299, 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)


Abstract
The study of modal logic has witnessed tremendous development following the introduction of Kripke semantics. However, recent developments in programming languages and type theory have led to a second way of studying modalities, namely through their categorical semantics. We show how the two correspond.

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G. A. Kavvos. Two-Dimensional Kripke Semantics I: Presheaves. In 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 299, pp. 14:1-14:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{kavvos:LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.14,
  author =	{Kavvos, G. A.},
  title =	{{Two-Dimensional Kripke Semantics I: Presheaves}},
  booktitle =	{9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-323-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{299},
  editor =	{Rehof, Jakob},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203438},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: modal logic, categorical semantics, Kripke semantics, duality, open maps}
}
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Towards Univalent Reference Types: The Impact of Univalence on Denotational Semantics

Authors: Jonathan Sterling, Daniel Gratzer, and Lars Birkedal

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 288, 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)


Abstract
We develop a denotational semantics for general reference types in an impredicative version of guarded homotopy type theory, an adaptation of synthetic guarded domain theory to Voevodsky’s univalent foundations. We observe for the first time the profound impact of univalence on the denotational semantics of mutable state. Univalence automatically ensures that all computations are invariant under symmetries of the heap - a bountiful source of program equivalences. In particular, even the most simplistic univalent model enjoys many new equations that do not hold when the same constructions are carried out in the universes of traditional set-level (extensional) type theory.

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Jonathan Sterling, Daniel Gratzer, and Lars Birkedal. Towards Univalent Reference Types: The Impact of Univalence on Denotational Semantics. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 47:1-47:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)


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@InProceedings{sterling_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2024.47,
  author =	{Sterling, Jonathan and Gratzer, Daniel and Birkedal, Lars},
  title =	{{Towards Univalent Reference Types: The Impact of Univalence on Denotational Semantics}},
  booktitle =	{32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024)},
  pages =	{47:1--47:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-310-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{288},
  editor =	{Murano, Aniello and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.47},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-196901},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.47},
  annote =	{Keywords: univalent foundations, homotopy type theory, impredicative encodings, synthetic guarded domain theory, guarded recursion, higher-order store, reference types}
}
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Homotopy Type Theory as Internal Languages of Diagrams of ∞-Logoses

Authors: Taichi Uemura

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 260, 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023)


Abstract
We show that certain diagrams of ∞-logoses are reconstructed in internal languages of their oplax limits via lex, accessible modalities, which enables us to use plain homotopy type theory to reason about not only a single ∞-logos but also a diagram of ∞-logoses. This also provides a higher dimensional version of Sterling’s synthetic Tait computability - a type theory for higher dimensional logical relations.

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Taichi Uemura. Homotopy Type Theory as Internal Languages of Diagrams of ∞-Logoses. In 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 260, pp. 5:1-5:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{uemura:LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.5,
  author =	{Uemura, Taichi},
  title =	{{Homotopy Type Theory as Internal Languages of Diagrams of ∞-Logoses}},
  booktitle =	{8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-277-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{260},
  editor =	{Gaboardi, Marco and van Raamsdonk, Femke},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-179897},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Homotopy type theory, ∞-logos, ∞-topos, oplax limit, Artin gluing, modality, synthetic Tait computability, logical relation}
}
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Sheaf Semantics of Termination-Insensitive Noninterference

Authors: Jonathan Sterling and Robert Harper

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 228, 7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022)


Abstract
We propose a new sheaf semantics for secure information flow over a space of abstract behaviors, based on synthetic domain theory: security classes are open/closed partitions, types are sheaves, and redaction of sensitive information corresponds to restricting a sheaf to a closed subspace. Our security-aware computational model satisfies termination-insensitive noninterference automatically, and therefore constitutes an intrinsic alternative to state of the art extrinsic/relational models of noninterference. Our semantics is the latest application of Sterling and Harper’s recent re-interpretation of phase distinctions and noninterference in programming languages in terms of Artin gluing and topos-theoretic open/closed modalities. Prior applications include parametricity for ML modules, the proof of normalization for cubical type theory by Sterling and Angiuli, and the cost-aware logical framework of Niu et al. In this paper we employ the phase distinction perspective twice: first to reconstruct the syntax and semantics of secure information flow as a lattice of phase distinctions between "higher" and "lower" security, and second to verify the computational adequacy of our sheaf semantics with respect to a version of Abadi et al.’s dependency core calculus to which we have added a construct for declassifying termination channels.

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Jonathan Sterling and Robert Harper. Sheaf Semantics of Termination-Insensitive Noninterference. In 7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 228, pp. 5:1-5:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)


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@InProceedings{sterling_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.5,
  author =	{Sterling, Jonathan and Harper, Robert},
  title =	{{Sheaf Semantics of Termination-Insensitive Noninterference}},
  booktitle =	{7th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2022)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-233-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{228},
  editor =	{Felty, Amy P.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162869},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2022.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: information flow, noninterference, denotational semantics, phase distinction, Artin gluing, modal type theory, topos theory, synthetic domain theory, synthetic Tait computability}
}
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Internal Parametricity for Cubical Type Theory

Authors: Evan Cavallo and Robert Harper

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 152, 28th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020)


Abstract
We define a computational type theory combining the contentful equality structure of cartesian cubical type theory with internal parametricity primitives. The combined theory supports both univalence and its relational equivalent, which we call relativity. We demonstrate the use of the theory by analyzing polymorphic functions between higher inductive types, and we give an account of the identity extension lemma for internal parametricity.

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Evan Cavallo and Robert Harper. Internal Parametricity for Cubical Type Theory. In 28th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 152, pp. 13:1-13:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{cavallo_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2020.13,
  author =	{Cavallo, Evan and Harper, Robert},
  title =	{{Internal Parametricity for Cubical Type Theory}},
  booktitle =	{28th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-132-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{152},
  editor =	{Fern\'{a}ndez, Maribel and Muscholl, Anca},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2020.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-116564},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2020.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: parametricity, cubical type theory, higher inductive types}
}
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Cubical Syntax for Reflection-Free Extensional Equality

Authors: Jonathan Sterling, Carlo Angiuli, and Daniel Gratzer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 131, 4th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2019)


Abstract
We contribute XTT, a cubical reconstruction of Observational Type Theory [Altenkirch et al., 2007] which extends Martin-Löf’s intensional type theory with a dependent equality type that enjoys function extensionality and a judgmental version of the unicity of identity proofs principle (UIP): any two elements of the same equality type are judgmentally equal. Moreover, we conjecture that the typing relation can be decided in a practical way. In this paper, we establish an algebraic canonicity theorem using a novel extension of the logical families or categorical gluing argument inspired by Coquand and Shulman [Coquand, 2018; Shulman, 2015]: every closed element of boolean type is derivably equal to either true or false.

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Jonathan Sterling, Carlo Angiuli, and Daniel Gratzer. Cubical Syntax for Reflection-Free Extensional Equality. In 4th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 131, pp. 31:1-31:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{sterling_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2019.31,
  author =	{Sterling, Jonathan and Angiuli, Carlo and Gratzer, Daniel},
  title =	{{Cubical Syntax for Reflection-Free Extensional Equality}},
  booktitle =	{4th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2019)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-107-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{131},
  editor =	{Geuvers, Herman},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2019.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-105387},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2019.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dependent type theory, extensional equality, cubical type theory, categorical gluing, canonicity}
}
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