A Compressing Translation from Propositional Resolution to Natural Deduction

  • Authors:
  • Hasan Amjad

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FD, UK

  • Venue:
  • FroCoS '07 Proceedings of the 6th international symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We describe a translation from SAT solver generated propositional resolution refutation proofs to classical natural deduction proofs. The resulting proof can usually be checked quicker than one that simply simulates the original resolution proof. We use this result in interactive theorem provers, to speed up reconstruction of SAT solver generated proofs. The translation is efficient, running in time linear in the length of the original proof, and effective, easily scaling up to large proofs with millions of inferences.