Nominal Henkin Semantics: simply-typed lambda-calculus models in nominal sets

We investigate a class of nominal algebraic Henkin-style models for the simply typed lambda-calculus in which variables map to names in the denotation and lambda-abstraction maps to a (non-functional) name-abstraction operation. The resulting denotations are smaller and better-behaved, in ways we ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Murdoch J. Gabbay, Dominic P. Mulligan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2011-10-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.0089v1