Models for Polymorphism over Physical Dimensions
Robert Atkey, Neil Ghani, Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, Revell, Timothy, Staton, Sam · Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde) · 2015
We provide a categorical framework for models of a type theory that has special types for physical quantities. The types are indexed by the physical dimensions that they involve. Fibrations are used to organize this index structure in the models of the type theory. We develop some informa-tive models of this type theory: firstly, a model based on group actions, which captures invariance under scaling, and secondly, a way of constructing new models using relational parametricity.