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Nominal Algebraic-Coalgebraic Data Types, with Applications to Infinitary Lambda-Calculi

Published: November 4, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.02595v1

By: Rémy Cerda

Potential Business Impact:

Lets computers work with tricky math symbols.

Business Areas:
Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

Ten years ago, it was shown that nominal techniques can be used to design coalgebraic data types with variable binding, so that alpha-equivalence classes of infinitary terms are directly endowed with a corecursion principle. We introduce "mixed" binding signatures, as well as the corresponding type of mixed inductive-coinductive terms. We extend the aforementioned work to this setting. In particular, this allows for a nominal description of the sets Lambda_abc of abc-infinitary lambda-terms (for a, b, c in {0,1}) and of capture-avoiding substitution on alpha-equivalence classes of such terms.

Page Count
12 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science