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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.4
Towards A Rosetta Stone of Interactive and Quantitative Semantics (Invited Talk)

Authors: Pierre Clairambault

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 363, 34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026)

Abstract
Quantitative semantics are those denotational semantics that inherit from linear logic [Jean-Yves Girard, 1987] a sensitivity to the multiplicity of resources involved in computation. Those include the relational model [Jean-Yves Girard, 1987] and its numerous variations (such as finiteness spaces [Thomas Ehrhard, 2005], weighted relational models [Jim Laird et al., 2013] and their extensions [Thomas Ehrhard et al., 2011; Thomas Ehrhard, 2002], generalized species of structure [Fiore et al., 2008], span models [Paul-André Melliès, 2019; Pierre Clairambault and Simon Forest, 2023], etc), as well as related syntactic methods such as non-idempotent intersection types [Daniel de Carvalho, 2018] and Taylor expansion of lambda-terms [Thomas Ehrhard and Laurent Regnier, 2003]. Interactive semantics are usually also quantitative, but in addition they present the interactive behaviour of proofs and programs, generally organized chronologically - those include the many variants of game semantics (starting with [J. M. E. Hyland and C.-H. Luke Ong, 2000; Samson Abramsky et al., 2000]), and other frameworks such as Geometry of Interaction [Girard, 1989] or ludics [Jean-Yves Girard, 2001]. Both families are cornerstones of modern denotational semantics, and both have associated Alonzo Church awards: game semantics in 2017, and quantitative semantics (in particular, differential linear logic and the differential λ-calculus) in 2024. It has more or less always been clear to the experts that the two, sharing an origin in linear logic, are conceptually related. Yet there are differences, which seem fundamental: in particular, while quantitative models compose relationally, the composition of strategies follows an intricate "parallel interaction plus hiding" process inspired from concurrency theory [Abramsky, 1997]. The two families of models have also historically targeted different kinds of languages: whereas quantitative semantics focused on theoretical calculi (and the λ-calculus in particular), game semantics is known for fully abstract models for languages with elaborate combinations of effects including local state [Samson Abramsky and Guy McCusker, 1996], control operators [James Laird, 1997], and concurrent primitives [Dan R. Ghica and Andrzej S. Murawski, 2008]. Early on, researchers have explored the relationship between the two [Thomas Ehrhard, 1996; Patrick Baillot et al., 1997], and investigations on this question have spanned decades [Pierre Boudes, 2009; Ana C. Calderon and Guy McCusker, 2010; Takeshi Tsukada and C.-H. Luke Ong, 2016; C.-H. Luke Ong, 2017]. In particular, Melliès' work on asynchronous games [Paul-André Melliès, 2006; Paul-André Melliès, 2005] made significant conceptual contributions, showing that the issue was enlightened by adopting a positional formulation of game semantics, where points in the relational model simply arise as certain positions. This talk surveys recent developments in this line of work, shedding light on the connection between those two families. Our work is set in so-called "thin concurrent games" [Simon Castellan et al., 2019; Pierre Clairambault, 2024], an extension with symmetry of Rideau and Winskel’s concurrent games on event structures [Silvain Rideau and Glynn Winskel, 2011]. Event structures being one of the main "truly concurrent" models of concurrency [Glynn Winskel, 1986], it is perhaps expected that thin concurrent games can model concurrent languages: they provide a truly concurrent refinement of Ghica and Murawski’s fully abstract model of Idealized Concurrent Algol [Simon Castellan and Pierre Clairambault, 2024; Pierre Clairambault, 2024]. But beyond the semantics of concurrency, thin concurrent games are also a deep reworking on game semantics built from causal principles, inheriting from asynchronous games a positional flavour. In thin concurrent games, strategies have a dual nature: an event-based nature where they appear as certain event structures composed via parallel interaction plus hiding; or a positional nature where they appear as certain spans of groupoids, composed by pullback (modulo a technical condition on strategies called visibility) - they can be regarded both as a games and a relational model! Leveraging this dual nature, in a sequence of papers with Castellan, de Visme, Olimpieri and Paquet, we have been able to link the single framework of thin concurrent games with numerous other models. This includes various traditional alternating or non-alternating games models [Simon Castellan and Pierre Clairambault, 2024; Pierre Clairambault, 2024], the weighted relational model [Pierre Clairambault and Hugo Paquet, 2021], the quantum relational model [Pierre Clairambault and Marc de Visme, 2020], generalized species of structure [Pierre Clairambault et al., 2023], and - going beyond quantitative semantics - the linear Scott model [Clairambault, 2025], a linear decomposition of standard Scott domain semantics [Thomas Ehrhard, 2012]. All these distinct models are obtained by projecting away certain aspects of thin concurrent games, giving some support to the claim that thin concurrent games are a Rosetta stone for interactive and quantitative semantics.
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Pierre Clairambault. Towards A Rosetta Stone of Interactive and Quantitative Semantics (Invited Talk). In 34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 363, pp. 4:1-4:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{clairambault:LIPIcs.CSL.2026.4,
  author =	{Clairambault, Pierre},
  title =	{{Towards A Rosetta Stone of Interactive and Quantitative Semantics}},
  booktitle =	{34th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2026)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:4},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-411-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{363},
  editor =	{Guerrini, Stefano and K\"{o}nig, Barbara},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-254286},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2026.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Denotational semantics, Game semantics}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.13
Strategies as Resource Terms, and Their Categorical Semantics

Authors: Lison Blondeau-Patissier, Pierre Clairambault, and Lionel Vaux Auclair

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

Abstract
As shown by Tsukada and Ong, simply-typed, normal and η-long resource terms correspond to plays in Hyland-Ong games, quotiented by Melliès' homotopy equivalence. Though inspiring, their proof is indirect, relying on the injectivity of the relational model {w.r.t.} both sides of the correspondence - in particular, the dynamics of the resource calculus is taken into account only via the compatibility of the relational model with the composition of normal terms defined by normalization. In the present paper, we revisit and extend these results. Our first contribution is to restate the correspondence by considering causal structures we call augmentations, which are canonical representatives of Hyland-Ong plays up to homotopy. This allows us to give a direct and explicit account of the connection with normal resource terms. As a second contribution, we extend this account to the reduction of resource terms: building on a notion of strategies as weighted sums of augmentations, we provide a denotational model of the resource calculus, invariant under reduction. A key step - and our third contribution - is a categorical model we call a resource category, which is to the resource calculus what differential categories are to the differential λ-calculus.
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Lison Blondeau-Patissier, Pierre Clairambault, and Lionel Vaux Auclair. Strategies as Resource Terms, and Their Categorical Semantics. In 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 260, pp. 13:1-13:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{blondeaupatissier_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.13,
  author =	{Blondeau-Patissier, Lison and Clairambault, Pierre and Vaux Auclair, Lionel},
  title =	{{Strategies as Resource Terms, and Their Categorical Semantics}},
  booktitle =	{8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:22},
  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.2023.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-179976},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2023.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Resource calculus, Game semantics, Categorical semantics}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.17
Positional Injectivity for Innocent Strategies

Authors: Lison Blondeau-Patissier and Pierre Clairambault

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 195, 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)

Abstract
In asynchronous games, Melliès proved that innocent strategies are positional: their behaviour only depends on the position, not the temporal order used to reach it. This insightful result shaped our understanding of the link between dynamic (i.e. game) and static (i.e. relational) semantics. In this paper, we investigate the positionality of innocent strategies in the traditional setting of Hyland-Ong-Nickau-Coquand pointer games. We show that though innocent strategies are not positional, total finite innocent strategies still enjoy a key consequence of positionality, namely positional injectivity: they are entirely determined by their positions. Unfortunately, this does not hold in general: we show a counter-example if finiteness and totality are lifted. For finite partial strategies we leave the problem open; we show however the partial result that two strategies with the same positions must have the same P-views of maximal length.
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Lison Blondeau-Patissier and Pierre Clairambault. Positional Injectivity for Innocent Strategies. In 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 195, pp. 17:1-17:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{blondeaupatissier_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.17,
  author =	{Blondeau-Patissier, Lison and Clairambault, Pierre},
  title =	{{Positional Injectivity for Innocent Strategies}},
  booktitle =	{6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-191-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{195},
  editor =	{Kobayashi, Naoki},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-142555},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Game Semantics, Innocence, Relational Semantics, Positionality}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.50
On the Expressivity of Linear Recursion Schemes

Authors: Pierre Clairambault and Andrzej S. Murawski

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 138, 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)

Abstract
We investigate the expressive power of higher-order recursion schemes (HORS) restricted to linear types. Two formalisms are considered: multiplicative additive HORS (MAHORS), which feature both linear function types and products, and multiplicative HORS (MHORS), based on linear function types only. For MAHORS, we establish an equi-expressivity result with a variant of tree-stack automata. Consequently, we can show that MAHORS are strictly more expressive than first-order HORS, that they are incomparable with second-order HORS, and that the associated branch languages lie at the third level of the collapsible pushdown hierarchy. In the multiplicative case, we show that MHORS are equivalent to a special kind of pushdown automata. It follows that any MHORS can be translated to an equivalent first-order MHORS in polynomial time. Further, we show that MHORS generate regular trees and can be translated to equivalent order-0 HORS in exponential time. Consequently, MHORS turn out to have the same expressive power as 0-HORS but they can be exponentially more concise. Our results are obtained through a combination of techniques from game semantics, the geometry of interaction and automata theory.
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Pierre Clairambault and Andrzej S. Murawski. On the Expressivity of Linear Recursion Schemes. In 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 138, pp. 50:1-50:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{clairambault_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.50,
  author =	{Clairambault, Pierre and Murawski, Andrzej S.},
  title =	{{On the Expressivity of Linear Recursion Schemes}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{50:1--50:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Rossmanith, Peter and Heggernes, Pinar and Katoen, Joost-Pieter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.50},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109945},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.50},
  annote =	{Keywords: higher-order recursion schemes, linear logic, game semantics, geometry of interaction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.5
The True Concurrency of Herbrand's Theorem

Authors: Aurore Alcolei, Pierre Clairambault, Martin Hyland, and Glynn Winskel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 119, 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018)

Abstract
Herbrand's theorem, widely regarded as a cornerstone of proof theory, exposes some of the constructive content of classical logic. In its simplest form, it reduces the validity of a first-order purely existential formula to that of a finite disjunction. In the general case, it reduces first-order validity to propositional validity, by understanding the structure of the assignment of first-order terms to existential quantifiers, and the causal dependency between quantifiers. In this paper, we show that Herbrand's theorem in its general form can be elegantly stated and proved as a theorem in the framework of concurrent games, a denotational semantics designed to faithfully represent causality and independence in concurrent systems, thereby exposing the concurrency underlying the computational content of classical proofs. The causal structure of concurrent strategies, paired with annotations by first-order terms, is used to specify the dependency between quantifiers implicit in proofs. Furthermore concurrent strategies can be composed, yielding a compositional proof of Herbrand's theorem, simply by interpreting classical sequent proofs in a well-chosen denotational model.
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Aurore Alcolei, Pierre Clairambault, Martin Hyland, and Glynn Winskel. The True Concurrency of Herbrand's Theorem. In 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 119, pp. 5:1-5:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{alcolei_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2018.5,
  author =	{Alcolei, Aurore and Clairambault, Pierre and Hyland, Martin and Winskel, Glynn},
  title =	{{The True Concurrency of Herbrand's Theorem}},
  booktitle =	{27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-088-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{119},
  editor =	{Ghica, Dan R. and Jung, Achim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-96723},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Herbrand's theorem, Game semantics, True concurrency}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.16
Fully Abstract Models of the Probabilistic lambda-calculus

Authors: Pierre Clairambault and Hugo Paquet

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 119, 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018)

Abstract
We compare three models of the probabilistic lambda-calculus: the probabilistic Böhm trees of Leventis, the probabilistic concurrent games of Winskel et al., and the weighted relational model of Ehrhard et al. Probabilistic Böhm trees and probabilistic strategies are shown to be related by a precise correspondence theorem, in the spirit of existing work for the pure lambda-calculus. Using Leventis' theorem (probabilistic Böhm trees characterise observational equivalence), we derive a full abstraction result for the games model. Then, we relate probabilistic strategies to the weighted relational model, using an interpretation-preserving functor from the former to the latter. We obtain that the relational model is also fully abstract.
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Pierre Clairambault and Hugo Paquet. Fully Abstract Models of the Probabilistic lambda-calculus. In 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 119, pp. 16:1-16:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{clairambault_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2018.16,
  author =	{Clairambault, Pierre and Paquet, Hugo},
  title =	{{Fully Abstract Models of the Probabilistic lambda-calculus}},
  booktitle =	{27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018)},
  pages =	{16:1--16:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-088-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{119},
  editor =	{Ghica, Dan R. and Jung, Achim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-96835},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Game Semantics, Lambda-calculus, Probabilistic programming, Relational model, Full abstraction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.81
Distributed Strategies Made Easy

Authors: Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault, and Glynn Winskel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 83, 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017)

Abstract
Distributed/concurrent strategies have been introduced as special maps of event structures. As such they factor through their "rigid images," themselves strategies. By concentrating on such "rigid image" strategies we are able to give an elementary account of distributed strategies and their composition, resulting in a category of games and strategies. This is in contrast to the usual development where composition involves the pullback of event structures explicitly and results in a bicategory. It is shown how, in this simpler setting, to extend strategies to probabilistic strategies; and indicated how through probability we can track nondeterministic branching behaviour, that one might otherwise think lost irrevocably in restricting attention to "rigid image" strategies.
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Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault, and Glynn Winskel. Distributed Strategies Made Easy. In 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 83, pp. 81:1-81:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{castellan_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.81,
  author =	{Castellan, Simon and Clairambault, Pierre and Winskel, Glynn},
  title =	{{Distributed Strategies Made Easy}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017)},
  pages =	{81:1--81:13},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-046-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2017},
  volume =	{83},
  editor =	{Larsen, Kim G. and Bodlaender, Hans L. and Raskin, Jean-Francois},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.81},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-81315},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.81},
  annote =	{Keywords: Games, Strategies, Event Structures, Probability}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.12
Observably Deterministic Concurrent Strategies and Intensional Full Abstraction for Parallel-or

Authors: Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault, and Glynn Winskel

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

Abstract
Although Plotkin’s parallel-or is inherently deterministic, it has a non-deterministic interpretation in games based on (prime) event structures - in which an event has a unique causal history - because they do not directly support disjunctive causality. General event structures can express disjunctive causality and have a more permissive notion of determinism, but do not support hiding. We show that (structures equivalent to) deterministic general event structures do support hiding, and construct a new category of games based on them with a deterministic interpretation of aPCFpor, an affine variant of PCF extended with parallel-or. We then exploit this deterministic interpretation to give a relaxed notion of determinism (observable determinism) on the plain event structures model. Putting this together with our previously introduced concurrent notions of well-bracketing and innocence, we obtain an intensionally fully abstract model of aPCFpor.
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Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault, and Glynn Winskel. Observably Deterministic Concurrent Strategies and Intensional Full Abstraction for Parallel-or. In 2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 84, pp. 12:1-12:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)

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@InProceedings{castellan_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.12,
  author =	{Castellan, Simon and Clairambault, Pierre and Winskel, Glynn},
  title =	{{Observably Deterministic Concurrent Strategies and Intensional Full Abstraction for Parallel-or}},
  booktitle =	{2nd International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2017)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:16},
  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.2017.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-77219},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2017.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Game semantics, parallel-or, concurrent games, event structures, full abstraction}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.32
Causality vs. Interleavings in Concurrent Game Semantics

Authors: Simon Castellan and Pierre Clairambault

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 59, 27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2016)

Abstract
We investigate relationships between interleaving and causal notions of game semantics for concurrent programming languages, focusing on the existence of canonical compact causal representations of the interleaving game semantics of programs. We perform our study on an affine variant of Idealized Parallel Algol (IPA), for which we present two games model: and interleaving model (an adaptation of Ghica and Murawski’s fully abstract games model for IPA up to may-testing), and a causal model (a variant of Rideau and Winskel’s games on event structures). Both models are sound and adequate for affine IPA. Then, we relate the two models. First we give a causality-forgetting operation mapping functorially the causal model to the interleaving one. We show that from an interleaving strategy we can reconstruct a causal strategy, from which it follows that the interleaving model is the observational quotient of the causal one. Then, we investigate several reconstructions of causal strategies from interleaving ones, showing finally that there are programs which are inherently causally ambiguous, with several distinct minimal causal representations.
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Simon Castellan and Pierre Clairambault. Causality vs. Interleavings in Concurrent Game Semantics. In 27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 59, pp. 32:1-32:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{castellan_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.32,
  author =	{Castellan, Simon and Clairambault, Pierre},
  title =	{{Causality vs. Interleavings in Concurrent Game Semantics}},
  booktitle =	{27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2016)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-017-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{59},
  editor =	{Desharnais, Jos\'{e}e and Jagadeesan, Radha},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61620},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Game semantics, concurrency, causality, event structures}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.138
Undecidability of Equality in the Free Locally Cartesian Closed Category

Authors: Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault, and Peter Dybjer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 38, 13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015)

Abstract
We show that a version of Martin-Löf type theory with extensional identity, a unit type N1, Sigma, Pi, and a base type is a free category with families (supporting these type formers) both in a 1- and a 2-categorical sense. It follows that the underlying category of contexts is a free locally cartesian closed category in a 2-categorical sense because of a previously proved biequivalence. We then show that equality in this category is undecidable by reducing it to the undecidability of convertibility in combinatory logic.
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Simon Castellan, Pierre Clairambault, and Peter Dybjer. Undecidability of Equality in the Free Locally Cartesian Closed Category. In 13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 38, pp. 138-152, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{castellan_et_al:LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.138,
  author =	{Castellan, Simon and Clairambault, Pierre and Dybjer, Peter},
  title =	{{Undecidability of Equality in the Free Locally Cartesian Closed Category}},
  booktitle =	{13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015)},
  pages =	{138--152},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-87-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{38},
  editor =	{Altenkirch, Thorsten},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.138},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-51602},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.138},
  annote =	{Keywords: Extensional type theory, locally cartesian closed categories, undecidab- ility}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.91
Böhm Trees as Higher-Order Recursive Schemes

Authors: Pierre Clairambault and Andrzej S. Murawski

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 24, IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013)

Abstract
Higher-order recursive schemes (HORS) are schematic representations of functional programs. They generate possibly infinite ranked labelled trees and, in that respect, are known to be equivalent to a restricted fragment of the lambda-Y-calculus consisting of ground-type terms whose free variables have types of the form o -> ... -> o (with o being a special case). In this paper, we show that any lambda-Y-term (with no restrictions on term type or the types of free variables) can actually be represented by a HORS. More precisely, for any lambda-Y-term M, there exists a HORS generating a tree that faithfully represents M's (eta-long) Böhm tree. In particular, the HORS captures higher-order binding information contained in the Böhm tree. An analogous result holds for finitary PCF. As a consequence, we can reduce a variety of problems related to the lambda-Y-calculus or finitary PCF to problems concerning higher-order recursive schemes. For instance, Böhm tree equivalence can be reduced to the equivalence problem for HORS. Our results also enable MSO model-checking of Böhm trees, despite the general undecidability of the problem.
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Pierre Clairambault and Andrzej S. Murawski. Böhm Trees as Higher-Order Recursive Schemes. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 24, pp. 91-102, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)

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@InProceedings{clairambault_et_al:LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.91,
  author =	{Clairambault, Pierre and Murawski, Andrzej S.},
  title =	{{B\"{o}hm Trees as Higher-Order Recursive Schemes}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013)},
  pages =	{91--102},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-64-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2013},
  volume =	{24},
  editor =	{Seth, Anil and Vishnoi, Nisheeth K.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.91},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-43644},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.91},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lambda calculus, B\"{o}hm trees, Recursion Schemes}
}
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