22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007) Stratified Bounded Affine Logic for Logarithmic Space Wroclaw, Poland July 10-July 14 ISBN: 0-7695-2908-9
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/LICS.2007.45
A number of complexity classes, most notably PTIME, have been characterised by sub-systems of linear logic. In this paper we show that the functions computable in log-arithmic space can also be characterised by a restricted version of linear logic. We introduce Stratified Bounded Affine Logic (SBAL), a restricted version of Bounded Linear Logic, in which not only the modality ! but also the universal quantifier is bounded by a resource polynomial. We show that the proofs of certain sequents in SBAL represent exactly the functions computable logarithmic space. The proof that SBAL-proofs can be compiled to LOGSPACE functions rests on modelling computation by interaction dialogues in the style of game semantics. We formulate the compilation of SBAL-proofs to space-efficient programs as an interpretation in a realisability model, in which realisers are taken from a Geometry of Interaction situation.
Citation:
Ulrich Sch?pp, "Stratified Bounded Affine Logic for Logarithmic Space," lics, pp.411-420, 22nd Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2007), 2007 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||