Non-deterministic Boolean proof nets

  • Authors:
  • Virgile Mogbil

  • Affiliations:
  • LIPN, UMR, CNRS, Université Paris 13, France

  • Venue:
  • FOPARA'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on Foundational and practical aspects of resource analysis
  • Year:
  • 2009
  • Proofs as executions

    TCS'12 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP TC 1/WG 202 international conference on Theoretical Computer Science

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Abstract

Abstract. We introduce Non-deterministic Boolean proof nets to study the correspondence with Boolean circuits, a parallel model of computation. We extend the cut elimination of Non-deterministic Multiplicative Linear logic to a parallel procedure in proof nets. With the restriction of proof nets to Boolean types, we prove that the cut-elimination procedure corresponds to Non-deterministic Boolean circuit evaluation and reciprocally. We obtain implicit characterization of the complexity classes NP and NC (the efficiently parallelizable functions).