Note: A note on preservation of strong normalisation in the λ-calculus

  • Authors:
  • José Espírito Santo

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

An auxiliary notion of reduction @r on the @l-terms preserves strong normalisation if all strongly normalising terms for @b are also strongly normalising for @b@?@r. We give a sufficient condition for @r to preserve strong normalisation. As an example of application, we check easily the sufficient condition for Regnier's @s-reduction rules and the ''assoc''-reduction rule inspired by calculi with let-expressions. This gives the simplest proof so far that the union of all these rules preserves strong normalisation.