gfp.thy
author nipkow
Tue, 22 Mar 1994 08:25:30 +0100
changeset 54 5ea12dfd9393
parent 0 7949f97df77a
permissions -rw-r--r--
used ordered rewriting to simplify some proofs

(*  Title: 	HOL/gfp.thy
    ID:         $Id$
    Author: 	Lawrence C Paulson, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory
    Copyright   1992  University of Cambridge

Greatest fixed points
*)

Gfp = Lfp +
consts gfp :: "['a set=>'a set] => 'a set"
rules
 (*greatest fixed point*)
 gfp_def "gfp(f) == Union({u. u <= f(u)})"
end