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The Power of Parameterization in Coinductive Proof

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This will be the first Semantics Lunch of the term - please do come along (or email Peter.Sewell@cl.cam.ac.uk) with offers of talks.

In this talk, I will present a very simple theorem about coinduction, which we call parameterized coinduction. More precisely it is for reasoning about the greatest fixed point of a monotone function on a complete lattice. The theorem is as simple as the Knaster-Tarski fixedpoint theorem but gives a more powerful reasoning principle.

I will compare our theorem with the Knaster-Tarski theorem and show its power using a simple bisimulation example.

In a different point of view, the theorem captures a semantic notion of “guarded proof” in coinduction. Thus we implemented a new tactic “pcofix” replacing Coq’s primitive cofix and avoiding its syntactic guardedness checking of proof terms.

You can find the Coq library at

http://plv.mpi-sws.org/paco

This is joint work with Georg Neis, Derek Dreyer and Viktor Vafeiadis.

This talk is part of the Semantics Lunch (Computer Laboratory) series.

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