Extensional and intensional semantic universes: A denotational model of dependent types

Valentin Blot, Jim Laird

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Abstract

We describe a dependent type theory, and a denotational model for it, that incorporates both intensional and extensional semantic universes. In the former, terms and types are interpreted as strategies on certain graph games, which are concrete data structures of a generalized form, and in the latter as stable functions on event domains. The concrete data structures themselves form an event domain, with which we may interpret an (extensional) universe type of (intensional) types. A dependent game corresponds to a stable function into this domain; we use its trace to define dependent product and sum constructions as it captures precisely how unfolding moves combine with the dependency to shape the possible interaction in the game. Since each strategy computes a stable function on CDS states, we can lift typing judgements from the intensional to the extensional setting, giving an expressive type theory with recursively defined type families and type operators. We define an operational semantics for intensional terms, giving a functional programming language based on our type theory, and prove that our semantics for it is computationally adequate. By extending it with a simple non-local control operator on intensional terms, we can precisely characterize behaviour in the intensional model. We demonstrate this by proving full abstraction and full completeness results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2018
PublisherIEEE
Pages95-104
Number of pages10
VolumePart F138033
ISBN (Electronic)9781450355834
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 31 Jul 2018
Event33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2018 - Oxford, UK United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Jul 201812 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
PublisherIEEE
ISSN (Electronic)2575-5528

Conference

Conference33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2018
Country/TerritoryUK United Kingdom
CityOxford
Period9/07/1812/07/18

Funding

We would like to thank Pierre Clairambault and Thomas Stre-icher for valuable discussions, and the anonymous referees for their comments. This research was supported by the Labex Digi-Cosme (project ANR11LABEX0045DIGICOSME) operated by ANR as part of the program “Investissements d’Avenir” Idex ParisSaclay (ANR11IDEX000302), and by UK EPSRC grant EP/K037633/1.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • General Mathematics

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