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Algebraic totality, towards completeness
Finiteness spaces constitute a categorical model of Linear Logic (LL) whose
objects can be seen as linearly topologised spaces, (a class of topological
vector spaces introduced by Lefschetz in 1942) and morphisms as continuous
linear maps. First, we recall definitions of finiteness spaces and describe
their basic properties deduced from the general theory of linearly topologised
spaces. Then we give an interpretation of LL based on linear algebra. Second,
thanks to separation properties, we can introduce an algebraic notion of
totality candidate in the framework of linearly topologised spaces: a totality
candidate is a closed affine subspace which does not contain 0. We show that
finiteness spaces with totality candidates constitute a model of classical LL.
Finally, we give a barycentric simply typed lambda-calculus, with booleans
and a conditional operator, which can be interpreted in this
model. We prove completeness at type for
every n by an algebraic method
Linear logic with idempotent exponential modalities: a note
In this note we discuss a variant of linear logic with idempotent exponential
modalities. We propose a sequent calculus system and discuss its semantics. We
also give a concrete relational model for this calculus
Game semantics for first-order logic
We refine HO/N game semantics with an additional notion of pointer
(mu-pointers) and extend it to first-order classical logic with completeness
results. We use a Church style extension of Parigot's lambda-mu-calculus to
represent proofs of first-order classical logic. We present some relations with
Krivine's classical realizability and applications to type isomorphisms
Extensional Collapse Situations I: non-termination and unrecoverable errors
We consider a simple model of higher order, functional computation over the
booleans. Then, we enrich the model in order to encompass non-termination and
unrecoverable errors, taken separately or jointly. We show that the models so
defined form a lattice when ordered by the extensional collapse situation
relation, introduced in order to compare models with respect to the amount of
"intensional information" that they provide on computation. The proofs are
carried out by exhibiting suitable applied {\lambda}-calculi, and by exploiting
the fundamental lemma of logical relations
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