An Interactive Proof of Termination for a Concurrent $\lambda$-calculus with References and Explicit Substitutions

In this paper we introduce a typed, concurrent $\lambda$-calculus with references featuring explicit substitutions for variables and references. Alongside usual safety properties, we recover strong normalization. The proof is based on a reducibility technique and an original interactive property reminiscent of the Game Semantics approach.

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