On Geometry of Interaction for Polarized Linear Logic

TL;DR

This paper develops Geometry of Interaction models for Multiplicative Polarized Linear Logic by incorporating multipoints into categorical models, enabling semantic characterization of proof dynamics and polarization features.

Contribution

It introduces a unified categorical framework for polarized GoI models using multipoints, advancing the semantic understanding of polarization and focusing in linear logic.

Findings

Categorical models of polarized GoI are constructed using multipoints.

Execution formula characterizes focusing and proof dynamics.

A concrete polarized GoI model is built in Rel category.

Abstract

We present Geometry of Interaction (GoI) models for Multiplicative Polarized Linear Logic, MLLP, which is the multiplicative fragment of Olivier Laurent's Polarized Linear Logic. This is done by uniformly adding multipoints to various categorical models of GoI. Multipoints are shown to play an essential role in semantically characterizing the dynamics of proof networks in polarized proof theory. For example, they permit us to characterize the key feature of polarization, focusing, as well as being fundamental to our construction of concrete polarized GoI models. Our approach to polarized GoI involves two independent studies, based on different categorical perspectives of GoI. (i) Inspired by the work of Abramsky, Haghverdi, and Scott, a polarized GoI situation is defined in which multipoints are added to a traced monoidal category equipped with a reflexive object $U$. Using this framework, categorical versions of Girard's Execution formula are defined, as well as the GoI interpretation of MLLP, proofs. Running the Execution formula is shown to characterize the focusing property (and thus polarities) as well as the dynamics of cut-elimination. (ii) The Int construction of Joyal-Street-Verity is another fundamental categorical structure for modelling GoI. Here, we investigate it in a multipointed setting. Our presentation yields a compact version of Hamano-Scott's polarized categories, and thus denotational models of MLLP. These arise from a contravariant duality between monoidal categories of positive and negative objects, along with an appropriate bimodule structure (representing "non-focused proofs") between them. Finally, as a special case of (ii) above, a compact model of MLLP is also presented based on Rel (the category of sets and relations) equipped with multi-points.