Computer Science – Logic in Computer Science
Scientific paper
2009-04-15
Theoret. Comput. Sci. 366 (2006), 3-59
Computer Science
Logic in Computer Science
this version includes the corrections from the corrigendum in Theoret. Comput. Sci. 403 (2008), 409-415
Scientific paper
This paper provides a general account of the notion of recursive program schemes, studying both uninterpreted and interpreted solutions. It can be regarded as the category-theoretic version of the classical area of algebraic semantics. The overall assumptions needed are small indeed: working only in categories with "enough final coalgebras" we show how to formulate, solve, and study recursive program schemes. Our general theory is algebraic and so avoids using ordered, or metric structures. Our work generalizes the previous approaches which do use this extra structure by isolating the key concepts needed to study substitution in infinite trees, including second-order substitution. As special cases of our interpreted solutions we obtain the usual denotational semantics using complete partial orders, and the one using complete metric spaces. Our theory also encompasses implicitly defined objects which are not usually taken to be related to recursive program schemes. For example, the classical Cantor two-thirds set falls out as an interpreted solution (in our sense) of a recursive program scheme.
Milius Stefan
Moss Lawrence S.
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