Game semantics and uniqueness of type inhabitance in the simply-typed λ-calculus

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Bourreau;Sylvain Salvati

  • Affiliations:
  • LaBRI, INRIA Sud-Ouest, Talence Cedex, France;LaBRI, INRIA Sud-Ouest, Talence Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • TLCA'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Typed lambda calculi and applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The problem of characterizing sequents for which there is a unique proof in intuitionistic logic was first raised by Mints [Min77], initially studied in [BS82] and later in [Aot99]. We address this problem through game semantics and give a new and concise proof of [Aot99]. We also fully characterize a family of λ-terms for Aoto's theorem. The use of games also leads to a new characterization of principal typings for simply-typed λ-terms. These results show that game models can help proving strong structural properties in the simply-typed λ-calculus.