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Summary: The First-Order Theory of Subtyping Constraints
Zhendong Su Alexander Aiken
Computer Science Division
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~{zhendong,aiken}
Joachim Niehren Tim Priesnitz
Programming Systems Lab
Universit¨at des Saarlandes
Saarbr¨ucken, Germany
http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~{niehren,tim}
Ralf Treinen
LRI, Universit´e Paris-Sud
F91405 Orsay cedex, France
http://www.lri.fr/~treinen
Abstract
We investigate the first-order theory of subtyping con-
straints. We show that the first-order theory of non-
structural subtyping is undecidable, and we show that in the
case where all constructors are either unary or nullary, the
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