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<title>The Nominal Datatype Package</title> |
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<h1>Mechanising the Metatheory of LF</h1> |
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<h3>by Christian Urban, James Cheney and Stefan Berghofer</h3> |
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<h4>Abstract</h4> |
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LF is a dependent type theory in which many other formal systems can |
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be conveniently embedded. However, correct use of LF relies on |
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nontrivial metatheoretic developments such as proofs of correctness |
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of decision procedures for LF's judgments. Although detailed |
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informal proofs of these properties have been published, they have |
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not been formally verified in a theorem prover. We have formalized |
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these properties within Isabelle/HOL using |
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the Nominal Datatype Package, closely following a recent article by |
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Harper and Pfenning. In the process, we identified and resolved a |
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gap in one of the proofs and a small number of minor lacunae |
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in others. We also formally derive a version of the type checking |
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algorithm from which Isabelle/HOL can generate executable code. |
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Besides its intrinsic interest, our formalization |
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provides a foundation for studying the adequacy of LF encodings, the |
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correctness of Twelf-style metatheoretic reasoning, and the |
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metatheory of extensions to LF.<P> |
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<b>Technical Report</b> |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/Nominal/LF/techreport.pdf">[pdf]</A><BR> |
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(This technical report contains in some sections more details of our development |
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than we presented in the LICS'08 paper, and also a new section on the |
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locally nameless representation of binders and on code generation.) |
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<b>Nominal Isabelle Development</b> |
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<A HREF="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/urbanc/Nominal/LF/LF.tgz">[LF.tgz]</A> |
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<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">[Validate this page.]</a> |
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