Nominal Unification Revisited

Nominal unification calculates substitutions that make terms involving binders equal modulo alpha-equivalence. Although nominal unification can be seen as equivalent to Miller's higher-order pattern unification, it has properties, such as the use of first-order terms with names (as opposed to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christian Urban
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2010-12-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.4890v1