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The difference λ-calculus: a language for difference categories

Abstract:
Cartesian difference categories are a recent generalisation of Cartesian differential categories which introduce a notion of "infinitesimal" arrows satisfying an analogue of the Kock-Lawvere axiom, with the axioms of a Cartesian differential category being satisfied only "up to an infinitesimal perturbation". In this work, we construct a simply-typed calculus in the spirit of the differential λ-calculus equipped with syntactic "infinitesimals" and show how its models correspond to difference λ-categories, a family of Cartesian difference categories equipped with suitably well-behaved exponentials.
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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2020.32

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-7509-680X


Publisher:
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
Host title:
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs
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LIPIcs More from this journal
Volume:
167
Pages:
32:1–32:21
Article number:
32
Publication date:
2020-06-01
Event title:
5th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2020)
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ISSN:
1868-8969
ISBN:
9783959771559


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