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Finitary Corecursion for the Infinitary Lambda Calculus (1505.07736v2)
Published 28 May 2015 in math.CT and cs.LO
Abstract: Kurz et al. have recently shown that infinite $\lambda$-trees with finitely many free variables modulo $\alpha$-equivalence form a final coalgebra for a functor on the category of nominal sets. Here we investigate the rational fixpoint of that functor. We prove that it is formed by all rational $\lambda$-trees, i.e. those $\lambda$-trees which have only finitely many subtrees (up to isomorphism). This yields a corecursion principle that allows the definition of operations such as substitution on rational $\lambda$-trees.