Computational Adequacy in an Elementary Topos

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  • Alex K. Simpson
چکیده

We place simple axioms on an elementary topos which suf-ce for it to provide a denotational model of call-by-value PCF with sum and product types. The model is synthetic in the sense that types are interpreted by their set-theoretic counterparts within the topos. The main result characterises when the model is computationally adequate with respect to the operational semantics of the programming language. We prove that computational adequacy holds if and only if the topos is 1-consistent (i.e. its internal logic validates only true 0 1-sentences).

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تاریخ انتشار 1998