Complexity analysis of term-rewriting systems
Theoretical Computer Science - Second Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications, Bordeaux, May 1987
Probability distribution for simple tautologies
Theoretical Computer Science - Logic, language, information and computation
Analytic Combinatorics
Classical and intuitionistic logic are asymptotically identical
CSL'07/EACSL'07 Proceedings of the 21st international conference, and Proceedings of the 16th annuall conference on Computer Science Logic
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Despite @l-calculus is now three quarters of a century old, no formula counting @l-terms has been proposed yet, and the combinatorics of @l-calculus is considered a hard problem. The difficulty lies in the fact that the recursive expression of the numbers of terms of size n with at most m free variables contains the number of terms of size n-1 with at most m+1 variables. This leads to complex recurrences that cannot be handled by classical analytic methods. Here based on de Bruijn indices (another presentation of @l-calculus) we propose several results on counting untyped lambda terms, i.e., on telling how many terms belong to such or such class, according to the size of the terms and/or to the number of free variables. We extend the results to normal forms.