We introduce a variant of Spector's bar recursion in nite types to give a realizability interpretation of the classical axiom of dependent choice allowing for the extraction of witnesses from proofs of 1 formulas in classical analysis. We also give a bar recursive denition of the fan functional and study the relationship of our variant of bar recursion with others. x1.

We show that to every recursive total continuous functional there is a representative of in the hierearchy of partial continuous funcriohals such that is S1 - S9 computable over the hierarchy of partial continuous functionals. Equivalently, the representative will be PCF-definable over the partial continuous functionals, where PCF is Plotkin's programming language for computable functionals.

Abstract. Perhaps surprisingly, there are infinite sets that admit mechanical exhaustive search in finite time. We investigate three related questions: What kinds of infinite sets admit mechanical exhaustive search in finite time? How do we systematically build such sets? How fast can exhaustive search over infinite sets be performed? Keywords. Higher-type computability and complexity, Kleene–Kreisel functionals, PCF, Haskell, topology. 1.

We discuss the conceptual problem of identifying the natural notions of computability at higher types (over the natural numbers). We argue for an eclectic approach, in which one considers a wide range of possible approaches to defining higher type computability and then looks for regularities. As a first step in this programme, we give an extended survey of the di#erent strands of research on higher type computability to date, bringing together material from recursion theory, constructive logic and computer science. The paper thus serves as a reasonably complete overview of the literature on higher type computability. Two sequel papers will be devoted to developing a more systematic account of the material reviewed here.

A number of authors have exported domain-theoretic techniques from denotational semantics to the operational study of contextual equivalence and order. We further develop this, and, moreover, we additionally export topological techniques. In particular, we work with an operational notion of compact set and show that total programs with values on certain types are uniformly continuous on compact sets of total elements. We apply this and other conclusions to prove the correctness of non-trivial programs that manipulate infinite data. What is interesting is that the development applies to sequential programming languages, in addition to languages with parallel features. 1

this paper is to give complete proofs of the density theorem and the choice principle for total continuous functionals in the natural and concrete context of the partial continuous functionals [Ers77], essentially by specializing more general treatments in the literature. The proofs obtained are relatively short and hopefully perspicious, and may contribute to redirect attention to the fundamental questions Kreisel originally was interested in. Obviously this work owes much to other sources. In particular I have made use of work by Scott [Sco82] (whose notion of an information system is taken as a basis to introduce domains), Roscoe [Ros87], Larsen and Winskel [LW84] and Berger [Ber93]. The paper is organized as follows. Section 1 treats information systems, and in section 2 it is shown that the partial orders defined by them are exactly the (Scott) domains with countable basis. Section 3 gives a characterization of the continuous functions between domains, in terms of approximable mappings. In section 4 cartesian products and function spaces of domains and information systems are introduced. In section 5 the partial and total continuous functionals are defined. Section 6 finally contains the proofs of the two theorems above; it will be clear that the same proofs also yield effective versions of these theorems.

There have been many suggestions for what should be a computable real number or function. Some of them exhibited pathological properties. At present, research concentrates either on an application of Weihrauch's Type Two Theory of Effectivity or on domain-theoretic approaches, in which case the partial objects appearing during computations are made explicit. A further, more analysis-oriented line of research is based on Grzegorczyk's work. All these approaches are claimed to be equivalent, but not in all cases proofs have been given. In this paper it is shown that a real number as well as a real-valued function are computable in Weihrauch's sense if and only if they are definable in Escardo's functional language Real PCF, an extension of the language PCF by a new ground type for (total and partial) real numbers. This is exactly the case if the number is a computable element in the continuous domain of all compact real intervals and/or the function has a computable extension to this doma...

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The Kleene-Kreisel density theorem is one of the tools used to investigate the denotational semantics of programs involving higher types. We give a brief introduction to the classical density theorem, then show how this may be generalized to set theoretical models for algorithms accepting real numbers as inputs and finally survey some recent applications of this generalization. 1

INTRODUCTION In his lecture at the congress, the first author gave a survey on some recent results relevant for computability theory in the context of partial continuous functionals (cf. (Scott, 1982; Ershov, 1977; Stoltenberg-Hansen et al., 1994)): ffl An abstract definition of totality due to Berger (cf. (Berger, 1990; Berger, 1993) and (Stoltenberg-Hansen et al., 1994, Ch. 8.3)), and applications concerning density and effective density theorems. ffl Bounded fixed points: one can have the flexibility of fixed point definitions and termination at the same time (cf. (Schwichtenberg and Wainer, 1995)). ffl A notion of strict functionals as a tool to prove termination of higher order rewrite systems (cf. (van de Pol and Schwichtenberg, 1995)). Since this work is published already, we do not give details here but rather concentrate on another "appli