Unifying Graded Linear Logic and Differential Operators

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Authors: Flavien Breuvart, Marie Kerjean, Simon Mirwasser
Cited by: 2

Abstract

Linear Logic refines Intuitionnistic Logic by taking into account the resources used during the proof and program computation. In the past decades, it has been extended to various frameworks. The most famous are indexed linear logics which can describe the resource management or the complexity analysis of a program. From an other perspective, Differential Linear Logic is an extension which allows the linearization of proofs. In this article, we merge these two directions by first defining a differential version of Graded linear logic: this is made by indexing exponential connectives with a monoid of differential operators. We prove that it is equivalent to a graded version of previously defined extension of finitary differential linear logic. We give a denotational model of our logic, based on distribution theory and linear partial differential operators with constant coefficients.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Logic Reasoning and Knowledge Advanced Algebra and Logic programming and type systems

Publication details

Journal / source
Logical Methods in Computer Science
Publisher
Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD)
Volume
Volume 22, Issue 1
Publication date
9 January 2026
Language
EN