A Faithful and Quantitative Notion of Distant Reduction for the Lambda-Calculus with Generalized Applications

We introduce a call-by-name lambda-calculus $λJn$ with generalized applications which is equipped with distant reduction. This allows to unblock $β$-redexes without resorting to the standard permutative conversions of generalized applications used in the original $ΛJ$-calculus with generalized applications of Joachimski and Matthes. We show strong normalization of simply-typed terms, and we then fully characterize strong normalization by means of a quantitative (i.e. non-idempotent intersection)...