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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Paul Taylor. Bar recursion (BR) is a form of recursive definition proposed by Spector [1] to extend system T so as to give a computational interpretation to proofs in classical analysis. It follows that T + BR is strictly more expressive than system T. Bar recursion can be viewed as form of recursion on well-founded trees. A celebrated result of Schwichtenberg [2] implies that if we restrict to T-definable trees, then BR of lowest type will not take us outside T-definability. This closure property is proven in [2] via a reduction to an infinitary version of system T, following by the use of ordinal recursion, and the translation of these back into system T. In [3] we have given a more direct proof, with an explicit construction that given a term in T + BR of restricted type, will convert that into a T term. [1] Spector, C., Provably recursive functionals of analysis, Recursive Function Theory: Proc. Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 5, 1–27, 1962 [2] Schwichtenberg, H., On bar recursion of types 0 and 1, The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 44, 325–329, 1979 [3] Oliva, P. and Steila, S., A direct proof of Schwichtenberg’s bar recursion closure theorem, under review. This talk is part of the Theoretical computer science seminar series. This talk is included in these lists:
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