Congruence of Bisimulation in a Non-Deterministic Call-By-Need Lambda Calculus

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Mann

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present a call-by-need @l-calculus @l"N"D with an erratic non-deterministic operator pick and a non-recursive let. A definition of a bisimulation is given, which has to be based on a further calculus named @l"~, since the naive bisimulation definition is useless. The main result is that bisimulation in @l"~ is a congruence and coincides with the contextual equivalence. The proof is a non-trivial extension of Howe's method. This might be a step towards defining useful bisimulation relations and proving them to be congruences in calculi that extend the @l"N"D-calculus.