A Constructive Proof of Dependent Choice, Compatible with Classical Logic

  • Authors:
  • Hugo Herbelin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • LICS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 27th Annual IEEE/ACM Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Martin-Löf's type theory has strong existential elimination (dependent sum type) that allows to prove the full axiom of choice. However the theory is intuitionistic. We give a condition on strong existential elimination that makes it computationally compatible with classical logic. With this restriction, we lose the full axiom of choice but, thanks to a lazily-evaluated coinductive representation of quantification, we are still able to constructively prove the axiom of countable choice, the axiom of dependent choice, and a form of bar induction in ways that make each of them computationally compatible with classical logic.