Lambda cube

Lambda cube

In mathematical logic and type theory, the λ-cube is a framework for exploring the axes of refinement in Coquand's calculus of constructions, starting from the simply typed lambda calculus as the vertex of a cube placed at the origin, and the calculus of constructions (higher order dependently-typed polymorphic lambda calculus) as its diametric opposite vertex. Each axis of the cube represents a new form of abstraction:
* Terms depending on types, or polymorphism (as in System F),
* Types depending on types, or type operators, and
* Types depending on terms, or dependent types (as in LF).All eight calculi include the most basic form of abstraction, terms depending on terms, ordinary functions as in the simply-typed lambda calculus.

All eight calculi are strongly normalizing.

The idea of the cube is due to the mathematician Henk Barendregt (1991).

ee also

* Lambda calculus
* System F
* Pure type system

References

* H.P. Barendregt, Introduction to generalized type systems, "Journal of Functional Programming", 1(2):125-154, April 1991.
* Simon Peyton Jones and Erik Meijer, 1997. [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/peytonjones97henk.html "Henk: A Typed Intermediate Language"]
* [http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/logic/cl/tlc001.htm Barendregt's Lambda Cube]


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