The Benefit of Being Non-Lazy in Probabilistic λ-calculus : Applicative Bisimulation is Fully Abstract for Non-Lazy Probabilistic Call-by-Name - Archive ouverte HAL
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The Benefit of Being Non-Lazy in Probabilistic λ-calculus : Applicative Bisimulation is Fully Abstract for Non-Lazy Probabilistic Call-by-Name

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We consider the probabilistic applicative bisimilarity (PAB)-- A coinductive relation comparing the applicative behaviour of probabilistic untyped λ-terms according to a specific operational semantics. This notion has been studied by Dal Lago et al. with respect to the two standard parameter passing policies, call-by-value (cbv) and call-by-name (cbn), using a lazy reduction strategy not reducing within the body of a function. In particular, PAB has been proven to be fully abstract with respect to the contextual equivalence in cbv [6] but not in lazy cbn [16]. We overcome this issue of cbn by relaxing the laziness constraint: We prove that PAB is fully abstract with respect to the standard head reduction contextual equivalence. Our proof is based on Leventis' Separation Theorem [19], using probabilistic Nakajima trees as a tree-like representation of the contextual equivalence classes. Finally, we prove also that the inequality full abstraction fails, showing that the probabilistic applicative similarity is strictly contained in the contextual preorder.

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hal-03586172 , version 1 (23-02-2022)

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Gianluca Curzi, Michele Pagani. The Benefit of Being Non-Lazy in Probabilistic λ-calculus : Applicative Bisimulation is Fully Abstract for Non-Lazy Probabilistic Call-by-Name. LICS '20: 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Jun 2020, Saarbrücken, Germany. pp.327-340, ⟨10.1145/3373718.3394806⟩. ⟨hal-03586172⟩
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