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On the form of witness terms

On the form of witness terms We investigate the development of terms during cut-elimination in first-order logic and Peano arithmetic for proofs of existential formulas. The form of witness terms in cut-free proofs is characterized in terms of structured combinations of basic substitutions. Based on this result, a regular tree grammar computing witness terms is given and a class of proofs is shown to have only elementary cut-elimination. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Archive for Mathematical Logic Springer Journals

On the form of witness terms

Archive for Mathematical Logic , Volume 49 (5) – Apr 26, 2010

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2010 by Springer-Verlag
Subject
Mathematics; Algebra; Mathematics, general; Mathematical Logic and Foundations
ISSN
0933-5846
eISSN
1432-0665
DOI
10.1007/s00153-010-0186-7
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Abstract

We investigate the development of terms during cut-elimination in first-order logic and Peano arithmetic for proofs of existential formulas. The form of witness terms in cut-free proofs is characterized in terms of structured combinations of basic substitutions. Based on this result, a regular tree grammar computing witness terms is given and a class of proofs is shown to have only elementary cut-elimination.

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Archive for Mathematical LogicSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 26, 2010

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