Some Complexity and Expressiveness Results on Multimodal and Stratified Proof Nets

  • Authors:
  • Luca Roversi;Luca Vercelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Dip. di Informatica, Univ. di Torino,;Dip. di Matematica, Univ. di Torino,

  • Venue:
  • Types for Proofs and Programs
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a multimodal stratified framework MS that generalizes an idea hidden in the definitions of Light Linear/Affine logical systems: "More modalities means more expressiveness". MS is a set of building-rule schemes that depend on parameters. We interpret the values of the parameters as modalities. Fixing the parameters yields deductive systems as instances of MS, that we call subsystems . Every subsystem generates stratified proof nets whose normalization preserves stratification , a structural property of nodes and edges, like in Light Linear/Affine logical systems. A first result is a sufficient condition for determining when a subsystem is strongly polynomial time sound. A second one shows that the ability to choose which modalities are used and how can be rewarding. We give a family of subsystems as complex as Multiplicative Linear Logic -- they are linear time and space sound -- that can represent Church numerals and some common combinators on them.