Notes on Sconing and Relators

@inproceedings{Mitchell1992NotesOS,
  title={Notes on Sconing and Relators},
  author={John C. Mitchell and Andre Scedrov},
  booktitle={Annual Conference for Computer Science Logic},
  year={1992}
}
This paper describes a semantics of typed lambda calculi based on relations. The main mathematical tool is a category-theoretic method of sconing, also called glueing or Freyd covers. Its correspondence to logical relations is also examined. 
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