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The differential λµ-calculus Lionel Vaux Institut de Math´ematiques de Luminy vaux@iml.univ-mrs.fr 6th December 2006 Abstract We define a differential λ-calculus which is an extension of both Parigot’s λ-calculus and Ehrhard- R´egnier’s differential λ-calculus. We prove some basic properties of the system: reduction enjoys Church- Rosser and simply typed terms are strongly normalizing. 1 Introduction Thomas Ehrhard and Laurent R´egnier showed in [ER03] how to extend λ-calculus by means of formal derivatives of λ-terms, following the well-known rules of usual differential calculus. This differential λ-calculus involves a strong relationship between linearity in the logical or computational sense (the argument of a function is used exactly once by this function) and linearity in the usual algebraic sense. As linearity is the founding notion derivation is built upon, this relationship is made explicit by the interaction between the structural rules of linear logic (contraction, dereliction and weakening), and some new semantic co-structural constructions that were introduced by Ehrhard in [Ehr01] and [Ehr04]. Structural constructs are used to manage arguments in the denotational semantics of λ-calculus. Co- structural constructs allow to differentiate morphisms: they form the semantic basis of the differential part of the calculus. Michel Parigot introduced λ-calculus in [Par92]: this extension of λ-calculus lifts the Curry-Howard correspondence from intuitionistic logic to classical logic. In this setting, proofs in classical natural deduction (also