Equality is typable in any Pure Type Systems (Based on a paper to appear)

Abstract:
Pure Type Systems are usually described in two different ways, one that uses an external notion of computation like beta-reduction,
and one that relies on a typed judgment of equality, directly in the typing system.
For a long time, the question to know whether both presentations described the same theory. A first step toward this equivalence has
been made by Adams for a particular class of PTS called functional. Then, his result has been relaxed to all semi-full PTS in previous work.

In this paper, we finally give a positive answer to the general issue, and prove that equivalence holds for any Pure Type System.

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