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Full abstraction for polymorphic π-calculus

Full abstraction for polymorphic π-calculus
Full abstraction for polymorphic π-calculus
The problem of finding a fully abstract model for the polymorphic π-calculus was stated in Pierce and Sangiorgi’s work in 1997 and has remained open since then. In this paper, we show that a variant of their language has a fully abstract model, which does not depend on type unification or logical relations. This is the first fully abstract model for a polymorphic concurrent language. In addition, we discuss the relationship between our work and Pierce and Sangiorgi’s, and show that their model based on type unification is sound but not complete.
0304-3975
171-196
Rathke, Julian
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Jeffrey, Alan
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Rathke, Julian
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Jeffrey, Alan
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Rathke, Julian and Jeffrey, Alan (2008) Full abstraction for polymorphic π-calculus. Theoretical Computer Science, 390 (2-3), 171-196. (doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2007.09.020).

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The problem of finding a fully abstract model for the polymorphic π-calculus was stated in Pierce and Sangiorgi’s work in 1997 and has remained open since then. In this paper, we show that a variant of their language has a fully abstract model, which does not depend on type unification or logical relations. This is the first fully abstract model for a polymorphic concurrent language. In addition, we discuss the relationship between our work and Pierce and Sangiorgi’s, and show that their model based on type unification is sound but not complete.

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Published date: 28 January 2008
Organisations: Electronic & Software Systems
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Local EPrints ID: 351165
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/351165
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2007.09.020
ISSN: 0304-3975
PURE UUID: a8c82767-7810-451b-a614-1208d85773ef

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Date deposited: 17 Apr 2013 12:04
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 13:35

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Author: Julian Rathke
Author: Alan Jeffrey

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