We give a semantic account of the execution time (i.e. the number of cut-elimination steps leading to the normal form) of an untyped MELL (proof-)net. We first prove that: 1) a net is head-normalizable (i.e. normalizable at depth 0) if and only if its interpretation in the multiset based relational semantics is not empty and 2) a net is normalizable if and only if its exhaustive interpretation (a suitable restriction of its interpretation) is not empty. We then define a size on every experiment of a net, and we precisely relate the number of cut-elimination steps of every stratified reduction sequence to the size of a particular experiment. Finally, we give a semantic measure of execution time: we prove that we can compute the number of cut-elimination steps leading to a cut free normal form of the net obtained by connecting two cut free nets by means of a cut link, from the interpretations of the two cut free nets. These results are inspired by similar ones obtained by the first author for the (untyped) lambda-calculus.

DANIEL DE, C., Michele, P., TORTORA DE FALCO, L. (2011). A semantic measure of the execution time in Linear Logic. THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, 412(20), 1884-1902.

A semantic measure of the execution time in Linear Logic

TORTORA DE FALCO, LORENZO
2011-01-01

Abstract

We give a semantic account of the execution time (i.e. the number of cut-elimination steps leading to the normal form) of an untyped MELL (proof-)net. We first prove that: 1) a net is head-normalizable (i.e. normalizable at depth 0) if and only if its interpretation in the multiset based relational semantics is not empty and 2) a net is normalizable if and only if its exhaustive interpretation (a suitable restriction of its interpretation) is not empty. We then define a size on every experiment of a net, and we precisely relate the number of cut-elimination steps of every stratified reduction sequence to the size of a particular experiment. Finally, we give a semantic measure of execution time: we prove that we can compute the number of cut-elimination steps leading to a cut free normal form of the net obtained by connecting two cut free nets by means of a cut link, from the interpretations of the two cut free nets. These results are inspired by similar ones obtained by the first author for the (untyped) lambda-calculus.
2011
DANIEL DE, C., Michele, P., TORTORA DE FALCO, L. (2011). A semantic measure of the execution time in Linear Logic. THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE, 412(20), 1884-1902.
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