Vladimir Sazonov - Inductive Definition and Domain Theoretic Properties of Fully Abstract

lmcs:914 - Logical Methods in Computer Science, September 10, 2007, Volume 3, Issue 3 - https://doi.org/10.2168/LMCS-3(3:7)2007
Inductive Definition and Domain Theoretic Properties of Fully AbstractArticle

Authors: Vladimir Sazonov

    A construction of fully abstract typed models for PCF and PCF^+ (i.e., PCF + "parallel conditional function"), respectively, is presented. It is based on general notions of sequential computational strategies and wittingly consistent non-deterministic strategies introduced by the author in the seventies. Although these notions of strategies are old, the definition of the fully abstract models is new, in that it is given level-by-level in the finite type hierarchy. To prove full abstraction and non-dcpo domain theoretic properties of these models, a theory of computational strategies is developed. This is also an alternative and, in a sense, an analogue to the later game strategy semantics approaches of Abramsky, Jagadeesan, and Malacaria; Hyland and Ong; and Nickau. In both cases of PCF and PCF^+ there are definable universal (surjective) functionals from numerical functions to any given type, respectively, which also makes each of these models unique up to isomorphism. Although such models are non-omega-complete and therefore not continuous in the traditional terminology, they are also proved to be sequentially complete (a weakened form of omega-completeness), "naturally" continuous (with respect to existing directed "pointwise", or "natural" lubs) and also "naturally" omega-algebraic and "naturally" bounded complete -- appropriate generalisation of the ordinary notions of domain theory to the case of non-dcpos.


    Volume: Volume 3, Issue 3
    Published on: September 10, 2007
    Imported on: February 17, 2006
    Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science,F.3.2

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