Equational inference, canonical proofs, and proof orderings

  • Authors:
  • Leo Bachmair;Nachum Dershowitz

  • Affiliations:
  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We describe the application of proof orderings—a technique for reasoning about inference systems-to various rewrite-based theorem-proving methods, including refinements of the standard Knuth-Bendix completion procedure based on critical pair criteria; Huet's procedure for rewriting modulo a congruence; ordered completion (a refutationally complete extension of standard completion); and a proof by consistency procedure for proving inductive theorems.