Type inhabitation problem

Type inhabitation problem

In simply typed lambda calculus, the type inhabitation problem is the following problem: given a type au, does there exist a lambda-term M such that Gamma vdash M : au for some type environment Gamma? If the answer is positive, M is said to be an inhabitant of au.

Since types in simply typed lambda calculus correspond to formulae of minimal implicative logic (see Curry-Howard isomorphism), a type has an inhabitant if and only if it is a tautology of minimal implicative logic.

Richard Statman proved that the type inhabitation problem is PSPACE-complete.


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