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Decidability of Bounded Higher-Order Unification

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It is shown that unifiability of terms in the simply typed lambda calculus with β and η rules becomes decidable if there is a bound on the number of bound variables and lambdas in a unifier in η-long β-normal form.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, J.-W.-Goethe-Universität, Postfach 11 19 32, D-60054, Frankfurt, Germany

    Manfred Schmidt-Schauß

  2. CIS, University of Munich, Oettingenstr 67, D-80538, München, Germany

    Klaus U. Schulz

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    Julian Bradfield

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Schmidt-Schauß, M., Schulz, K.U. (2002). Decidability of Bounded Higher-Order Unification. 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_35

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