Parallel and serial hypercoherences

It is known that the strongly stable functions which arise in the semantics of PCF can be realized by sequential algorithms, which can be considered as deterministic strategies in games associated to PCF types. Studying the connection between strongly stable functions and sequential algorithms, two dual classes of hypercoherences naturally arise: the parallel and serial hypercoherences. The objects belonging to the intersection of these two classes are in bijective correspondence with the so-called \serial-parallel" graphs, that can essentially be considered as games. We show how to associate to any hypercoherence a parallel hypercoherence together with a projection onto the given hypercoherence and present some properties of this construction. Intuitively, it makes explicit the computational time of a hypercoherence. Notice: This is a preliminary version of the paper Ehr00] entitled \Parallel and serial hyperco