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Head reduction and normalization in a call-by-value lambda-calculus

Author Giulio Guerrieri

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Giulio Guerrieri. Head reduction and normalization in a call-by-value lambda-calculus. In 2nd International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program Transformations and Evaluation (WPTE 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 46, pp. 3-17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.WPTE.2015.3

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Recently, a standardization theorem has been proven for a variant of Plotkin's call-by-value lambda-calculus extended by means of two commutation rules (sigma-reductions): this result was based on a partitioning between head and internal reductions. We study the head normalization for this call-by-value calculus with sigma-reductions and we relate it to the weak evaluation of original Plotkin's call-by-value lambda-calculus. We give also a (non-deterministic) normalization strategy for the call-by-value lambda-calculus with sigma-reductions.

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  • sequentialization
  • lambda-calculus
  • sigma-reduction
  • call-by-value
  • head reduction
  • internal reduction
  • (strong) normalization
  • evaluation
  • confluence

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