Contraction-Free Linear Depth Sequent Calculi for Intuitionistic Propositional Logic with the Subformula Property and Minimal Depth Counter-Models

  • Authors:
  • Mauro Ferrari;Camillo Fiorentini;Guido Fiorino

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy 21100;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy 20135;Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi per le Scienze Economiche Aziendali, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy 20126

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we present LSJ, a contraction-free sequent calculus for Intuitionistic propositional logic whose proofs are linearly bounded in the length of the formula to be proved and satisfy the subformula property. We also introduce a sequent calculus RJ for intuitionistic unprovability with the same properties of LSJ. We show that from a refutation of RJ of a sequent 驴 we can extract a Kripke counter-model for 驴. Finally, we provide a procedure that given a sequent 驴 returns either a proof of 驴 in LSJ or a refutation in RJ such that the extracted counter-model is of minimal depth.