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Coinduction Plain and Simple

@article{Bry2020CoinductionPA,
  title={Coinduction Plain and Simple},
  author={Franccois Bry},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2020},
  volume={abs/2007.09909}
}
Coinduction refers to both a technique for the definition of infinite streams, so-called codata, and a technique for proving the equality of coinductively specified codata. This article first reviews coinduction in declarative programming. Second, it reviews and slightly extends the formalism commonly used for specifying codata. Third, it generalizes the coinduction proof principle, which has been originally specified for the equality predicate only, to other predicates. This generalization… 
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