Abstract
It is known that the set of BCK-formulas which is provable by the detachment rule of Meredith is identical to the set pts(BCK) of principal type-schemes of BCK-λ-terms. This paper shows a characterization of the set pts(BCK-β) of principal type-schemes of BCK-λ-terms in β-normal form. To characterize the set pts(BCK), a 'relevance relation' is defined between type variables in a type. A type variable b is relevant to a type variable c in a type α iff α contains a negative occurrence of a subtype of the form (... → b) → ... → c. The relevance graph G(α) of the type α is the directed graph induced by this relevance relation. A type variable is said to be positive iff it occurs in a positive position and negative otherwise. It is proved that a type α is in pts(BCK-β) iff α satisfies: (a) every type variable occurs exactly once in a negative position and at most once in a positive position; (b) no negative type variable is relevant to any type variable but itself and the subgraph of G(α) whose nodes are positive type variables of α is a tree whose root is the rightmost type variable in α; (c) each positive type variable in a subtype γ is relevant to the right-most type variable in γ.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 269-285 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Logic and Computation |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 1993 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Software
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Hardware and Architecture
- Logic