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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2022.11
Pragmatic Isomorphism Proofs Between Coq Representations: Application to Lambda-Term Families

Authors: Catherine Dubois, Nicolas Magaud, and Alain Giorgetti

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 269, 28th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2022)

Abstract
There are several ways to formally represent families of data, such as lambda terms, in a type theory such as the dependent type theory of Coq. Mathematical representations are very compact ones and usually rely on the use of dependent types, but they tend to be difficult to handle in practice. On the contrary, implementations based on a larger (and simpler) data structure combined with a restriction property are much easier to deal with. In this work, we study several families related to lambda terms, among which Motzkin trees, seen as lambda term skeletons, closable Motzkin trees, corresponding to closed lambda terms, and a parameterized family of open lambda terms. For each of these families, we define two different representations, show that they are isomorphic and provide tools to switch from one representation to another. All these datatypes and their associated transformations are implemented in the Coq proof assistant. Furthermore we implement random generators for each representation, using the QuickChick plugin.
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Catherine Dubois, Nicolas Magaud, and Alain Giorgetti. Pragmatic Isomorphism Proofs Between Coq Representations: Application to Lambda-Term Families. In 28th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 269, pp. 11:1-11:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{dubois_et_al:LIPIcs.TYPES.2022.11,
  author =	{Dubois, Catherine and Magaud, Nicolas and Giorgetti, Alain},
  title =	{{Pragmatic Isomorphism Proofs Between Coq Representations: Application to Lambda-Term Families}},
  booktitle =	{28th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2022)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-285-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{269},
  editor =	{Kesner, Delia and P\'{e}drot, Pierre-Marie},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2022.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-184548},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2022.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Data Representations, Isomorphisms, dependent Types, formal Proofs, random Generation, lambda Terms, Coq}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2022.25
Proof Pearl: Formalizing Spreads and Packings of the Smallest Projective Space PG(3,2) Using the Coq Proof Assistant

Authors: Nicolas Magaud

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 237, 13th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2022)

Abstract
We formally implement the smallest three-dimensional projective space PG(3,2) in the Coq proof assistant. This projective space features 15 points and 35 lines, related by an incidence relation. We define points and lines as two plain datatypes (one with 15 constructors for points, and one with 35 constructors for lines) and the incidence relation as a boolean function, instead of using the well-known coordinate-based approach relying on GF(2)⁴. We prove that this implementation actually verifies all the usual properties of three-dimensional projective spaces. We then use an oracle to compute some characteristic subsets of objects of PG(3,2), namely spreads and packings. We formally verify that these computed objects exactly correspond to the spreads and packings of PG(3,2). For spreads, this means identifying 56 specific sets of 5 lines among 360 360 (= 15× 14× 13× 12× 11) possible ones. We then classify them, showing that the 56 spreads of PG(3,2) are all isomorphic whereas the 240 packings of PG(3,2) can be classified into two distinct classes of 120 elements. Proving these results requires partially automating the generation of some large specification files as well as some even larger proof scripts. Overall, this work can be viewed as an example of a large-scale combination of interactive and automated specifications and proofs. It is also a first step towards formalizing projective spaces of higher dimension, e.g. PG(4,2), or larger order, e.g. PG(3,3).
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Nicolas Magaud. Proof Pearl: Formalizing Spreads and Packings of the Smallest Projective Space PG(3,2) Using the Coq Proof Assistant. In 13th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 237, pp. 25:1-25:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{magaud:LIPIcs.ITP.2022.25,
  author =	{Magaud, Nicolas},
  title =	{{Proof Pearl: Formalizing Spreads and Packings of the Smallest Projective Space PG(3,2) Using the Coq Proof Assistant}},
  booktitle =	{13th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2022)},
  pages =	{25:1--25:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-252-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{237},
  editor =	{Andronick, June and de Moura, Leonardo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2022.25},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167349},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2022.25},
  annote =	{Keywords: Coq, projective geometry, finite models, spreads, packings, PG(3, 2)}
}
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