Higher-order matching and games

  • Authors:
  • Colin Stirling

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • CSL'05 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We provide a game-theoretic characterisation of higher-order matching. The idea is suggested by model checking games. We then show that some known decidable instances of matching can be uniformly proved decidable via the game-theoretic characterisation.