Lambda Definability with Sums via Grothendieck Logical Relations

  • Authors:
  • Marcelo P. Fiore;Alex K. Simpson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • TLCA '99 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We introduce a notion of Grothendieck logical relation and use it to characterise the definability of morphisms in stable bicartesian closed categories by terms of the simply-typed lambda calculus with finite products and finite sums. Our techniques are based on concepts from topos theory, however our exposition is elementary.