Proof search in Hájek's basic logic

  • Authors:
  • Simone Bova;Franco Montagna

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy;Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL)
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We introduce a proof system for Hájek's logic BL based on a relational hypersequents framework. We prove that the rules of our logical calculus, called RHBL, are sound and invertible with respect to any valuation of BL into a suitable algebra, called (ω)[0,1]. Refining the notion of reduction tree that arises naturally from RHBL, we obtain a decision algorithm for BL provability whose running time upper bound is 2O(n), where n is the number of connectives of the input formula. Moreover, if a formula is unprovable, we exploit the constructiveness of a polynomial time algorithm for leaves validity for providing a procedure to build countermodels in (ω)[0, 1]. Finally, since the size of the reduction tree branches is O(n3), we can describe a polynomial time verification algorithm for BL unprovability.