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Minimal forms in λ-cakulus computations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Corrado Böhm and
Silvio Micali
Corrado Böhm
Affiliation:
Università Di Roma, 00100 Roma, Italy
Silvio Micali
Affiliation:
Università Di Roma, 00100 Roma, Italy
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Abstract

The notion of a minimal form is defined as an extension of the notion of a normal form in λ-β-calculus and its meaning is discussed in a computational environment. The features of the Knuth-Gross reduction strategy are used to prove that to possess a minimal form, for a generic term, is a semidecidable predicate.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , March 1980, pp. 165 - 171
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1980

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