Title
A datastructure for iterated powers
Abstract
Bushes are considered as the first example of a truly nested datatype, i. e., a family of datatypes indexed over all types where a constructor argument not only calls this family with a changing index but even with an index that involves the family itself. For the time being, no induction principles for these datatypes are known. However, the author has introduced with Abel and Uustalu (TCS 333(1–2), pp. 3–66, 2005) iteration schemes that guarantee to define only terminating functions on those datatypes. The article uses a generalization of Bushes to n-fold self-application and shows how to define elements of these types that have a number of data entries that is obtained by iterated raising to the power of n. Moreover, the data entries are just all the n-branching trees up to a certain height. The real question is how to extract this list of trees from that complicated data structure and to prove this extraction correct. Here, we use the “refined conventional iteration” from the cited article for the extraction and describe a verification that has been formally verified inside Coq with its predicative notion of set.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11783596_18
MPC
Keywords
Field
DocType
induction principle,n-branching tree,constructor argument,data entry,iterated power,nested datatype,complicated data structure,predicative notion,certain height,refined conventional iteration,iteration scheme,indexation,data structure
Data structure,Discrete mathematics,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Data type,List processing,Predicative expression,Iterated function,Software development,Formal verification,Branching (version control)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4014
0302-9743
3-540-35631-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
16
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ralph Matthes120121.67