# A MALL Geometry of Interaction Based on Indexed Linear Logic

**Authors:** Masahiro Hamano

arXiv: 1704.02711 · 2023-06-22

## TL;DR

This paper develops a geometry of interaction model for MALL using indexed linear logic, enabling dynamic analysis of additive cut elimination with explicit indices.

## Contribution

It extends the categorical GoI framework to handle additives in MALL through indexed logic, capturing additive features at a finer dynamic level.

## Key findings

- Indexed logic effectively models additive cut elimination.
- Execution formulas are invariant under cut elimination.
- Indices diminish during execution, modeling erasure in proof reduction.

## Abstract

We construct a geometry of interaction (GoI: dynamic modeling of Gentzen-style cut elimination) for multiplicative-additive linear logic (MALL) by employing Bucciarelli-Ehrhard indexed linear logic MALL(I) to handle the additives. Our construction is an extension to the additives of the Haghverdi-Scott categorical formulation (a multiplicative GoI situation in a traced monoidal category) for Girard's original GoI 1. The indices are shown to serve not only in their original denotational level, but also at a finer grained dynamic level so that the peculiarities of additive cut elimination such as superposition, erasure of subproofs, and additive (co-) contraction can be handled with the explicit use of indices. Proofs are interpreted as indexed subsets in the category Rel, but without the explicit relational composition; instead, execution formulas are run pointwise on the interpretation at each index, w.r.t symmetries of cuts, in a traced monoidal category with a reflexive object and a zero morphism. The sets of indices diminish overall when an execution formula is run, corresponding to the additive cut-elimination procedure (erasure), and allowing recovery of the relational composition. The main theorem is the invariance of the execution formulas along cut elimination so that the formulas converge to the denotations of (cut-free) proofs.

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