⊤⊤-closed relations and admissibility

  • Authors:
  • Martín Abadi

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Labs Research, Lucent Technologies, 3180 Porter Drive, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

While developing a method for reasoning about programs, Pitts defined the ⊤⊤-closed relations as an alternative to the standard admissible relations. This paper reformulates and studies Pitts's operational concept of ⊤⊤-closure in a semantic framework. It investigates the non-trivial connection between ⊤⊤-closure and admissibility, showing that ⊤⊤-closure is strictly stronger than admissibility and that every ⊤⊤-closed relation corresponds to an admissible preorder.