Proving with ACL2 the correctness of simplicial sets in the kenzo system

  • Authors:
  • Jónathan Heras;Vico Pascual;Julio Rubio

  • Affiliations:
  • Departamento de Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain;Departamento de Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain;Departamento de Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

  • Venue:
  • LOPSTR'10 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Logic-based program synthesis and transformation
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Kenzo is a Common Lisp system devoted to Algebraic Topology. Although Kenzo uses higher-order functional programming intensively, we show in this paper how the theorem prover ACL2 can be used to prove the correctness of first order fragments of Kenzo. More concretely, we report on the verification in ACL2 of the implementation of simplicial sets. By means of a generic instantiation mechanism, we achieve the reduction of the proving effort for each family of simplicial sets, letting ACL2 automate the routine parts of the proofs.