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The purpose of this paper is to identify programs with control operators whose reduction semantics are in exact correspondence. This is achieved by introducing a relation ≃, defined over a revised presentation of Parigot’s λμ-calculus we dub ΛM. Our result builds on two fundamental ingredients: (1) factorization of λμ-reduction into multiplicative and exponential steps by means of explicit term operators of ΛM, and (2) translation of ΛM-terms into Laurent’s polarized proof-nets (PPN) such that cut-elimination in PPN simulates our calculus. Our proposed relation ≃ is shown to characterize structural equivalence in PPN. Most notably, ≃ is shown to be a strong bisimulation with respect to reduction in ΛM, i.e. two ≃-equivalent terms have the exact same reduction semantics, a result which fails for Regnier’s σ-equivalence in λ-calculus as well as for Laurent’s σ-equivalence in λμ.
@InProceedings{kesner_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2020.4,
author = {Kesner, Delia and Bonelli, Eduardo and Viso, Andr\'{e}s},
title = {{Strong Bisimulation for Control Operators}},
booktitle = {28th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2020)},
pages = {4:1--4:23},
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.2020.4},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-116473},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2020.4},
annote = {Keywords: Lambda-mu calculus, proof-nets, strong bisimulation}
}