On Reversible Combinatory Logic

  • Authors:
  • Alessandra Di Pierro;Chris Hankin;Herbert Wiklicky

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Universitá di Pisa, Italy;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom;Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The @l-calculus is destructive: its main computational mechanism - beta reduction - destroys the redex and makes it thus impossible to replay the computational steps. Recently, reversible computational models have been studied mainly in the context of quantum computation, as (without measurements) quantum physics is inherently reversible. However, reversibility also changes fundamentally the semantical framework in which classical computation has to be investigated. We describe an implementation of classical combinatory logic into a reversible calculus for which we present an algebraic model based on a generalisation of the notion of group.