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Curry and Howard Meet Borel

Authors :
Antonelli, Melissa
Lago, Ugo Dal
Pistone, Paolo
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

We show that an intuitionistic version of counting propositional logic corresponds, in the sense of Curry and Howard, to an expressive type system for the probabilistic event lambda-calculus, a vehicle calculus in which both call-by-name and call-by-value evaluation of discrete randomized functional programs can be simulated. Remarkably, proofs (respectively, types) do not only guarantee that validity (respectively, termination) holds, but also reveal the underlying probability. We finally show that by endowing the type system with an intersection operator, one obtains a system precisely capturing the probabilistic behavior of lambda-terms.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2203.11265
Document Type :
Working Paper