Transducers, Part C: Regular Functions in Terms of Combinators
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Section 5 of Part C of the book Transducers (M. Bojańczyk) as concepts and a proof: the combinator description of the regular functions. The Lean development is Aristotle's formalisation of the book, re-presented in the archive's form; it requires the submissions for Parts B and C §1–3.
The definition-concepts are the types built from the unit type by product, co-product and list, with the string representation of their elements over an eight-letter alphabet (C.5.1), regularity of a type-to-type function under string representation (C.5.2), and the regular terms with their semantics (C.5.3). The theorem-concept is the implication of Theorem C.5.4 that every function defined by a regular term is regular under string representation, proved by induction on the term with a bracket-counter parser of the representations. The converse implication, expressive completeness of the terms, is not formalised and no statement here asserts it; the auxiliary lemmas and claims of the section are its steps and do not appear.
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@misc{lax-709149,
author = {Mikołaj Bojańczyk and Aristotle (Harmonic)},
title = {Transducers, Part C: Regular Functions in Terms of Combinators},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Lax Archive, lax-709149},
url = {https://laxarchive.org/lax-709149/},
}
References
- Mikołaj Bojańczyk, Laure Daviaud and Shankara Narayanan Krishna. Regular and First-Order List Functions. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2018) 125–134, 2018. doi:10.1145/3209108.3209163
- Mikołaj Bojańczyk. Transducers. 2026. Book in preparation; sources at https://github.com/bojanczyk/transducer-book.
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