On Köthe sequence spaces and linear logic

Abstract

We present a category of locally convex topological vector spaces that is a model of propositional classical linear logic and is based on the standard concept of Köthe sequence spaces. In this setting, the ‘of course’ connective of linear logic has a quite simple structure of a commutative Hopf algebra. The co-Kleisli category of this linear category is a cartesian closed category of entire mappings. This work provides a simple setting in which typed λ-calculus and differential calculus can be combined; we give a few examples of computations.