Iowa Type Theory Commute
Aaron Stump talks about type theory, computational logic, and related topics in Computer Science on his short commute.
Iowa Type Theory Commute
Nominal Isabelle/HOL
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Aaron Stump
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Season 6
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Episode 5
In this episode, I discuss the paper Nominal Techniques in Isabelle/HOL, by Christian Urban. This paper shows how to reason with terms modulo alpha-equivalence, using ideas from nominal logic. The basic idea is that instead of renamings, one works with permutations of names.