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We define a new unification problem, which we call β-unification and which can be used to characterize the β-strong normalization of terms in the λ-calculus. We prove the undecidability of β-unification, its connection with the system of intersection types, and several of its basic properties.
Various static analyses of functional programming languages that permit infinite data structures make use of set constants like Top, Inf, and Bot, denoting all terms, all lists not eventually ending in Nil, and all non-terminating programs, respectively. We use a set language that permits union, constructors and recursive definition of set constants with a greatest fixpoint semantics in the set of all, also infinite, computable trees, where all term constructors are non-strict. This...