A Step-Indexing Approach to Partial Functions

David Greve
(Rockwell Collins)
Konrad Slind
(Rockwell Collins)

We describe an ACL2 package for defining partial recursive functions that also supports efficient execution. While packages for defining partial recursive functions already exist for other theorem provers, they often require inductive definitions or recursion operators which are not available in ACL2 and they provide little, if any, support for executing the resulting definitions. We use step-indexing as the underlying implementation technology, enabling the definitions to be carried out in first order logic. We also show how recent enhancements to ACL2's guard feature can be used to enable the efficient execution of partial recursive functions.

In Ruben Gamboa and Jared Davis: Proceedings International Workshop on the ACL2 Theorem Prover and its Applications (ACL2 2013), Laramie, Wyoming, USA , May 30-31, 2013, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 114, pp. 42–53.
Published: 26th April 2013.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.114.4 bibtex PDF
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