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Proofnets and Context Semantics for the Additives

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Computer Science Logic (CSL 2002)

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We provide a context semantics for Multiplicative-Additive Linear Logic (MALL), together with proofnets whose reduction preserves semantics, where proofnet reduction is equated with cut-elimination on MALL sequents. The results extend the program of Gonthier, Abadi, and Lévy, who provided a “geometry of optimal λ-reduction” (context semantics) for λ-calculus and Multiplicative-Exponential Linear Logic (MELL). We integrate three features: a semantics that uses buses to implement slicing; a proofnet technology that allows multidimensional boxes and generalized garbage, preserving the linearity of additive reduction; and finally, a read-back procedure that computes a cut-free proof from the semantics, a constructive companion to full abstraction theorems.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts, 02454

    Harry G. Mairson

  2. École Normale Superieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005, Paris

    Xavier Rival

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  1. Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, King’s Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK

    Julian Bradfield

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Mairson, H.G., Rival, X. (2002). Proofnets and Context Semantics for the Additives. In: Bradfield, J. (eds) Computer Science Logic. CSL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2471. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45793-3_11

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