Re: A question about structural congruence

[Benyamin Aziz <baziz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does this mean that we can affirm the following statement?
n \notin fn(P) & m \notin fn(Q)   ==>   P=Q
Whereas in any other case, nothing can be said about P and Q.
I think this is reasonable.  If you imagine (nu n) and (nu m) as a pair of
scissors that cuts any external communication channels (free names), then you
can never tell, unless you know the inner structure of both P & Q, as to how
many channels you have cut! (or, in other words, as to how many free names did
P and Q have before the restrictions).  The only case when you are able to
know is when that number is 0.  And this is precisely when n is not in fn(P)
"and" m is not in fn(Q).
I don't think that whether n = m really matters.
Ben

Davide Sangiorgi wrote:

> Sorry, i overlooked n!=m, my examples were using n=m and hence do not
> apply -- thanks Luis (see below)
>
> davide
>
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>
>  From: Luis Caires <Luis.Caires@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: Re: A question about structural congruence
>
> Hi Davide,
>
> Note that there are two alternative cases (a) and (b);
> and (b) should apply when the roles of the
> topmost restrictions do not "match":
>
> >  either (a) P == Q{n<->m} (where {n<->m} denotes exchange of n and m),
> >  or          (b) P == (nu m)P' and Q == (nu n)Q' and P' == Q' [ for some
> P' and Q' ].
>
> In your first example,
> (nu n)P = (nu n) n.0 == (nu m)(nu n) n.0 = (nu m)Q
> hence P = n.0 and Q = (nu n) n.0
> But then P == (nu m) n.0 (since m is not free in n.0) so we
> can pick P' = n.0 and P == (nu m)P'.
> On the other hand, we may pick Q' = n.0.
> So Q == (nu n)Q' and therefore P' == Q'. So (b) holds.
> Your second example also goes through
> in a similar way,  note that in (nu n)P == (nu m)Q
> I'm assuming n!=m, so we need to start from say
> (nu x)(nu y) (x.x + y)  ==   (nu z)(nu y) (y.y + z)...
>
> Luis
>
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