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Proof-Producing Translation of Functional Programs into a Time \& Space Reasonable Model

Published: March 4, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2503.02975v2

By: Kevin Kappelmann , Fabian Huch , Lukas Stevens and more

Potential Business Impact:

Builds computer programs from simpler instructions.

Business Areas:
Simulation Software

We present a semi-automated framework to construct and reason about programs in a deeply-embedded while-language. The while-language we consider is a simple computation model that can simulate (and be simulated by) Turing Machines with a quadratic time and constant space blow-up. Our framework derives while-programs from functional programs written in a subset of Isabelle/HOL, namely tail-recursive functions with first-order arguments and algebraic datatypes. As far as we are aware, it is the first framework targeting a computation model that is reasonable in time and space from a complexity-theoretic perspective.

Country of Origin
🇩🇪 🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Germany

Page Count
25 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science