Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
437418 Theoretical Computer Science 2011 15 Pages PDF
Abstract

This paper shows (1) the undecidability of the type checking and the typability problems in the domain-free lambda calculus with negation, product, and existential types, (2) the undecidability of the typability problem in the domain-free polymorphic lambda calculus, and (3) the undecidability of the type checking and the typability problems in the domain-free lambda calculus with function and existential types. The first and the third results are proved by the second result and CPS translations that reduce those problems in the domain-free polymorphic lambda calculus to those in the domain-free lambda calculi with existential types. The key idea is the conservativity of the domain-free lambda calculi with existential types over the images of the translations.

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