Strong cut-elimination systems for hudelmaier's depth-bounded sequent calculus for implicational logic

  • Authors:
  • Roy Dyckhoff;Delia Kesner;Stéphane Lengrand

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland;PPS, CNRS and Université Paris 7, France;,School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • IJCAR'06 Proceedings of the Third international joint conference on Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Inspired by the Curry-Howard correspondence, we study normalisation procedures in the depth-bounded intuitionistic sequent calculus of Hudelmaier (1988) for the implicational case, thus strengthening existing approaches to Cut-admissibility. We decorate proofs with terms and introduce various term-reduction systems representing proof transformations. In contrast to previous papers which gave different arguments for Cut-admissibility suggesting weakly normalising procedures for Cut-elimination, our main reduction system and all its variations are strongly normalising, with the variations corresponding to different optimisations, some of them with good properties such as confluence.