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Lax logical relations are a categorical generalisation of logical relations; though they preserve product types, they need not preserve exponential types. But, like logical relations, they are preserved by the meanings of all lambda-calculus terms.We show that lax logical relations coincide with the correspondences of Schoett, the algebraic relations of Mitchell and the pre-logical relations of Honsell and Sannella on Henkin models, but also generalise naturally to models in cartesian closed categories and to richer languages.
This author was supported by EPSRC grants GR/J84205 and GR/M56333.
This author was supported by EPSRC grants GR/J84205 and GR/M56333, and by a grant from the British Council.
This author was supported by EPSRC grant GR/K63795.
This author was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Plotkin, G., Power, J., Sannella, D., Tennent, R. (2000). Lax Logical Relations. In: Montanari, U., Rolim, J.D.P., Welzl, E. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1853. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45022-X_9
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