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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.13
Unifying Boolean and Algebraic Descriptive Complexity

Authors: Baptiste Chanus, Damiano Mazza, and Morgan Rogers

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

Abstract
We introduce ultrarings, which simultaneously generalize commutative rings and Boolean lextensive categories. As such, they allow to blend together standard algebraic notions (from commutative algebra) and logical notions (from categorical logic), providing a unifying descriptive framework in which complexity classes over arbitrary rings (as in the Blum, Schub, Smale model) and usual, Boolean complexity classes may be captured in a uniform way.
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Baptiste Chanus, Damiano Mazza, and Morgan Rogers. Unifying Boolean and Algebraic Descriptive Complexity. In 10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 337, pp. 13:1-13:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{chanus_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.13,
  author =	{Chanus, Baptiste and Mazza, Damiano and Rogers, Morgan},
  title =	{{Unifying Boolean and Algebraic Descriptive Complexity}},
  booktitle =	{10th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2025)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:22},
  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.2025.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-236286},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2025.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: Descriptive complexity theory, Categorical logic, Blum-Shub-Smale complexity}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.29
Böhm and Taylor for All!

Authors: Aloÿs Dufour and Damiano Mazza

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

Abstract
Böhm approximations, used in the definition of Böhm trees, are a staple of the semantics of the lambda-calculus. Introduced more recently by Ehrhard and Regnier, Taylor approximations provide a quantitative account of the behavior of programs and are well-known to be connected to intersection types. The key relation between these two notions of approximations is a commutation theorem, roughly stating that Taylor approximations of Böhm trees are the same as Böhm trees of Taylor approximations. Böhm and Taylor approximations are available for several variants or extensions of the lambda-calculus and, in some cases, commutation theorems are known. In this paper, we define Böhm and Taylor approximations and prove the commutation theorem in a very general setting. We also introduce (non-idempotent) intersection types at this level of generality. From this, we show how the commutation theorem and intersection types may be applied to any calculus embedding in a sufficiently nice way into our general calculus. All known Böhm-Taylor commutation theorems, as well as new ones, follow by this uniform construction.
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Aloÿs Dufour and Damiano Mazza. Böhm and Taylor for All!. In 9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 299, pp. 29:1-29:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{dufour_et_al:LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.29,
  author =	{Dufour, Alo\"{y}s and Mazza, Damiano},
  title =	{{B\"{o}hm and Taylor for All!}},
  booktitle =	{9th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2024)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:20},
  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.2024.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203582},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2024.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: Linear logic, Differential linear logic, Taylor expansion of lambda-terms, B\"{o}hm trees, Process calculi}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2015.24
Simple Parsimonious Types and Logarithmic Space

Authors: Damiano Mazza

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 41, 24th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2015)

Abstract
We present a functional characterization of deterministic logspace-computable predicates based on a variant (although not a subsystem) of propositional linear logic, which we call parsimonious logic. The resulting calculus is simply-typed and contains no primitive besides those provided by the underlying logical system, which makes it one of the simplest higher-order languages capturing logspace currently known. Completeness of the calculus uses the descriptive complexity characterization of logspace (we encode first-order logic with deterministic closure), whereas soundness is established by executing terms on a token machine (using the geometry of interaction).
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Damiano Mazza. Simple Parsimonious Types and Logarithmic Space. In 24th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 41, pp. 24-40, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{mazza:LIPIcs.CSL.2015.24,
  author =	{Mazza, Damiano},
  title =	{{Simple Parsimonious Types and Logarithmic Space}},
  booktitle =	{24th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2015)},
  pages =	{24--40},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-90-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{41},
  editor =	{Kreutzer, Stephan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2015.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-54053},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2015.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: implicit computational complexity, linear logic, geometry of interaction}
}
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