Categorical Models of Explicit Substitutions

  • Authors:
  • Neil Ghani;Valeria de Paiva;Eike Ritter

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FoSSaCS '99 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structure, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on the Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS'99
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Indexed categories provide models of cartesian calculi of explicit substitutions. However, these structures are inherently non-linear and hence cannot be used to model linear calculi of explicit substitution. This paper replaces indexed categories with pre-sheaves, thus providing a categorical semantics covering both the linear and cartesian cases. We further justify our models by proving soundness and completeness results.