Representations of first order function types as terminal coalgebras

  • Authors:
  • Thorsten Altenkirch

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • TLCA'01 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Typed lambda calculi and applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We show that function types which have only initial algebras for regular functors in the domains, i.e. first order function types, can be represented by terminal coalgebras for certain nested functors. The representation exploits properties of ωop-limits and local ω-colimits.