On the Values of Reducibility Candidates

Abstract

The straightforward elimination of union types is known to break subject reduction, and for some extensions of the lambda-calculus, to break strong normalization as well. Similarly, the straightforward elimination of implicit existential types breaks subject reduction.We propose elimination rules for union types and implicit existential quantification which use a form call-by-value issued from Girard’s reducibility candidates. We show that these rules remedy the above mentioned difficulties, for strong normalization and, for the existential quantification, for subject reduction as well.Moreover, for extensions of the lambda-calculus based on intuitionistic logic, we show that the obtained existential quantification is equivalent to its usual impredicative encoding w.r.t. provability in realizability models built from reducibility candidates and biorthogonals.KeywordsClosure OperatorUnion TypeIntuitionistic LogicTyping RuleElimination RuleThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.