A Non-commutative Extension of MELL

  • Authors:
  • Alessio Guglielmi;Lutz Straßburger

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • LPAR '02 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We extend multiplicative exponential linear logic (M EL)L by a non-commutative, self-dual logical operator. The extended system, called NEL, is defined in the formalism of the calculus of structures, which is a generalisation of the sequent calculus and provides a more refined analysis of proofs. We should then be able to extend the range of applications of M EL,L by modelling a broad notion of sequentiality and providing new properties of proofs. We show some proof theoretical results: decomposition and cut elimination. The new operator represents a significant challenge: to get our results we use here for the first time some novel techniques, which constitute a uniform and modular approach to cut elimination, contrary to what is possible in the sequent calculus.