• DocumentCode
    2210976
  • Title

    Characterizing X-separability and one-side invertibility in lambda - beta - Omega -calculus

  • Author

    Bohm, Corrado ; Piperno, Adolfo

  • Author_Institution
    Dipartimento di Matematica, Rome Univ., Italy
  • fYear
    1988
  • fDate
    0-0 1988
  • Firstpage
    91
  • Lastpage
    101
  • Abstract
    Given a finite set T identical to (T/sub 1/, . . . ,T/sub t/) of terms of the lambda - beta -K-calculus and a set X/sub T/ identical to (x/sub 1/, . . ., x/sub n/) of free variables (occurring in the elements of T), X/sub T/-separability is the problem of deciding whether there exists a simultaneous substitution for the elements of X/sub T/ transforming T into the set Z identical to (Z/sub 1/, . . . Z/sub t/) of arbitrary terms. The X/sub T/-separability problem is proved to be solvable for any approximation T/sup Hash / of the set T by terms in lambda - beta - Omega -normal form. Since the characterization is constructive, if the terms T/sup , Hash //sub i/ identical to lambda x/sub 1/ . . . x/sub n/. T/sup Hash //sub i/ (i=1, . . ., t) are closed then the sequence T/sup Hash //sub 1/, . . ., T/sup Hash //sub t/ induces a family of mappings (from n to t dimensions) whose surjectivity and right-invertibility becomes decidable. The left-invertibility of this family is proved to be decidable too.<>
  • Keywords
    decidability; X-separability; decidable; lambda - beta - Omega -calculus; mappings; one-side invertibility; right-invertibility; surjectivity; Artificial intelligence; Calculus; Computer science; Equations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Logic in Computer Science, 1988. LICS '88., Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Edinburgh, UK
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-0853-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LICS.1988.5104
  • Filename
    5104