Acyclic Solos and Differential Interaction Nets

We present a restriction of the solos calculus which is stable under reduction and expressive enough to contain an encoding of the pi-calculus. As a consequence, it is shown that equalizing names that are already equal is not required by the encoding of the pi-calculus. In particular, the induced solo diagrams bear an acyclicity property that induces a faithful encoding into differential interaction nets. This gives a (new) proof that differential interaction nets are expressive enough to contain an encoding of the pi-calculus. All this is worked out in the case of finitary (replication free) systems without sum, match nor mismatch.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CORR
• Authors: Thomas Ehrhard, Olivier Laurent
• Keywords: CORR 2010, Education, Interaction Nets, Pi-calculus, Solo Diagrams