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Concept

Fixed point combinator

Modified just now

Tools: Rocq (formerly Coq)

  • (Lambda calculus, Semantics) A Combinator that finds a fixed-point of a functional (a function that takes a function and returns another function). There are many such combinators, such as the Curry/Y-Combinator or the Z-combinator. Formally, a fixed-point combinator is a combinator fix\text{fix} such that for any functional gg, fix g\text{fix}\ g is beta/eta-equivalent to g (fix g)g\ (\text{fix}\ g).