Confluence of the coinductive λ-calculus

  • Authors:
  • Felix Joachimski

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematisches Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Theresienstrasse 39, München 80333, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The coinductive λ-calculus Aco arises by a coinductive interpretation of the grammar of the standard λ-calculus A and contains non-well-founded λ-terms. An appropriate notion of reduction is analyzed and proven to be confluent by means of a detailed analysis of the usual Tait/Martin-Löf style development argument. This yields bounds for the lengths of those joining reduction sequences that are guaranteed to exist by confluence. These bounds also apply to the well-founded λ-calculus, thus adding quantitative information to the classic result.