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Battyányi, Péter; Nour, Karim
AIMS mathematics, 2020, Volume: 5, Issue: 4Journal Article
A long-standing open problem of Parigot has been solved by David and Nour, namely, they gave a syntactical and arithmetical proof of the strong normalization of the untyped μμ'-reduction. In connection with this, we present in this paper a proof of the weak normalization of the μ and μ'-rules. The algorithm works by induction on the complexity of the term. Our algorithm does not necessarily give a unique normal form: sometimes we may get different normal forms depending on our choice. We also give a simpler proof of the strong normalization of the same reduction. Our proof is based on a notion of a norm defined on the terms.
