2014/12/05 by Eduardo Bonelli, Bonelli, Eduardo, Delia Kesner +5
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #cs.LO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.2118
arxiv created 2016/05/09 · arxiv updated 2016/05/10
We study normalisation of multistep strategies, strategies that reduce a set of redexes at a time, focussing on the notion of necessary sets, those which contain at least one redex that cannot be avoided in order to reach a normal form. This is particularly appealing in the setting of non-sequential rewrite systems, in which terms that are not in normal form may not have any needed redex. We first prove a normalisation theorem for abstract rewrite systems (ARS), a general rewriting framework encompassing many rewriting systems developed by P-A.Melliès in his PhD thesis. The theorem states that multistep strategies reducing so called necessary and never-gripping sets of redexes at a time are normalising in any ARS. Gripping refers to an abstract property reflecting the behavior of higher-order substitution. We then apply this result to the particular case of PPC, a calculus of patterns and to the lambda-calculus with parallel-or.