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The Uniform Functional Interpretation with Informative Types

Published: August 18, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.12781v2

By: Fernando Ferreira, Paulo Oliva

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We discuss a new approach to functional interpretations based on uniform quantification and relativization. The uniform quantification in the background permits a more penetrating analysis of principles related to collection and contra-collection. Relativization comes from a computationally informative notion of being an element of a given type. The approach is flexible. When the information takes the shape of bounds, we can recapture a form of the combination of G\"odel's functional dialectica interpretation with majorizability. When the information is "canonical" in function types, we obtain new functional interpretations and new models of G\"odel's theory T.

Page Count
46 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Logic