Enumerating Proofs of Positive Formulae

  • Authors:
  • Gilles Dowek;Ying Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • The Computer Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We provide a semi-grammatical description of the set of normal proofs of positive formulae in minimal predicate logic, i.e. a grammar that generates a set of schemes, from each of which we can produce a finite number of normal proofs. This method is complete in the sense that each normal proof-term of the formula is produced by some scheme generated by the grammar. As a corollary, we get a similar description of the set of normal proofs of positive formulae for a large class of theories including simple type theory and System F.