Paper: Reduction-free normalisation for a polymorphic system (at LICS 1996)
Authors: Thorsten Altenkirch Martin Hofmann Thomas StreicherAbstract
We give a semantical proof that every term of a combinator version of system F has a normal form. As the argument is entirely formalisable in an impredicative constructive type theory a reduction-free normalisation algorithm can be extracted from this. The proof is presented as the construction of a model of the calculus inside a category of presheaves. Its definition is given entirely in terms of the internal language.
BibTeX
@InProceedings{AltenkirchHofmannSt-Reductionfreenormal, author = {Thorsten Altenkirch and Martin Hofmann and Thomas Streicher}, title = {Reduction-free normalisation for a polymorphic system}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual IEEE Symp. on Logic in Computer Science, {LICS} 1996}, year = 1996, editor = {Edmund M. Clarke}, month = {July}, pages = {98-106}, location = {New Brunswick, NJ, USA}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press} }