Abella: Examples

# Abella Examples

# Process calculi

- The π-calculus
  - Finite π-calculus overview
    - An example of bisimulation checking for the π-calculus
    - Simulation and bisimulation for the π-calculus
    - Simulation in the finite π-calculus is a "pre-congruence"
  - Bisimulation-up-to for the π-calculus with replication
    - Basic definitions
    - Bisimulation up to bisimilarity
  - Relating the π-calculus and the λ-calculus (contributed by Horace Blanc)
    - The linear substitution calculus
    - Definition of the π-calculus
    - Proof that structural equivalence is a bisimulation
    - The translation from λ-calculus to the π-calculus
    - Proof that the translation is a bisimulation
- The Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS)
  - Bisimulation-up-to
    - Basic definitions
    - Bisimulation up to bisimilarity and some examples
    - CCS contexts are faithful
    - Bisimulation up to context
    - Bisimulation up to bisimilarity and context and some examples
  - A two-level presentation
- Meta-theory of session types as processes

# Programming languages

- POPLmark Challenge 1a: transitivity of subtyping for system Fsub
  - The exact challenge, in a first-order specification
- POPLmark Challenge 2a: progress and preservation of system Fsub
- Evaluation by explicit substitution
- PCF: Programming language for Computable Functions
- Soudness of Howe's method for open (applicative) bisimilarity, demonstrating how to quantify over simultaneous substitutions

# Logic

- Cut-admissibility for LJ
- Equivalence of natural deduction, Hilbert calculus, and sequent calculus for the implication fragment of minimal logic
- Correctness and completeness of focusing for the implication fragment of minimal logic
- Explicit two-level reasoning
  - Meta-Theory of the restricted HH that allows only dynamically addition of atomic formulas
  - Meta-Theory of the full HH

# The λ-calculus

- Normalization for simply-typed terms
  - Strong normalization
  - Weak normalization
- Preservation of strong normalization for a variant of the λσ-calculus
- Church-Rosser
- Standardization
- Evaluation and typing
- Type uniqueness for simply-typed terms
  - With standard techniques
  - With explicit freshness predicate
  - Without using the specification logic
  - Without using nominal abstraction
- Type-preservation for Curry-style System F (Contributed by Ahn Ki Yung)
- Term structure
  - Equivalence on terms based on paths in lambda terms, available in two versions:
    - Second-order version for static terms
    - Higher-order version for terms upto marked β-reduction
  - Partitioning into normal and non-normal form
  - Determinism of translation between HOAS and de Bruijn representations, available in two flavors of specifications.
    - First-order version
    - Higher-order version

# First-order reasoning

- Properties of lists
- Addition is associative and commutative
- Totality of the Ackermann function
- Totality of GCD relation
- Every natural number is even or odd

# Miscellaneous

- Higher-order logic programming
- Arbitrary cascading (simultaneous) substitutions
- Equivalence of single and double eigenvariable definitions of copy
- Results on possibly infinite natural numbers
- Results on possibly infinite lists
- Correctness of higher-order pattern unification based substitution
- Co-induction in relational semantics