Title : 
The emptiness problem for intersection types
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of Inf., Warsaw Univ., Poland
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We prove that it is undecidable whether a given intersection type is non-empty, i.e., whether there exists a closed term of this type
         
        
            Keywords : 
decidability; formal logic; lambda calculus; type theory; closed term; emptiness problem; intersection types; Automata; Calculus; Informatics; Logic;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Logic in Computer Science, 1994. LICS '94. Proceedings., Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Paris
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-8186-6310-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/LICS.1994.316059