Kripke Logical Relations and PCF

Peter W. O’Hearn, Jon G. Riecke · Information and Computation · 1995

Sieber has described a model of PCF consisting of continuous functions that are invariant under certain (finitary) logical relations, and shown that it is fully abstract for closed terms of up to third-order types. We show that one may achieve full abstraction at all types using a form of "Kripke logical relations" introduced by Jung and Tiuryn to characterize λ-definability.

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