Fixed point semantics and partial recursion in Coq
Résumé
We propose to use Knaster-Tarski least fixed point theorem as a basis to define recursive functions in the Calculus of Inductive Constructions. This widens the class of functions that can be modeled in type-theory based theorem proving tools to potentially non-terminating functions. This is only possible if we extend the logical framework by adding some axioms of classical logic. We claim that the extended framework makes it possible to reason about terminating or non-terminating computations and we show that extraction can also be extended to handle the new functions.
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