2021/01/08 by Carlos Olarte, Elaine Pimentel, Olarte, Carlos +3
Computer Science · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #Formal Methods in Verification #Logic (math.LO) #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge #Logic, programming, and type systems
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2101.03113
openalex publication_date 2021/01/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper develops an algorithmic-based approach for proving inductive properties of propositional sequent systems such as admissibility, invertibility, cut-elimination, and identity expansion. Although undecidable in general, these structural properties are crucial in proof theory because they can reduce the proof-search effort and further be used as scaffolding for obtaining other meta-results such as consistency. The algorithms -- which take advantage of the rewriting logic meta-logical framework, and use rewrite- and narrowing-based reasoning -- are explained in detail and illustrated with examples throughout the paper. They have been fully mechanized in the L-Framework, thus offering both a formal specification language and off-the-shelf mechanization of the proof-search algorithms coming together with semi-decision procedures for proving theorems and meta-theorems of the object system. As illustrated with case studies in the paper, the L-Framework, achieves a great degree of automation when used on several propositional sequent systems, including single conclusion and multi-conclusion intuitionistic logic, classical logic, classical linear logic and its dyadic system, intuitionistic linear logic, and normal modal logics.