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A new calculus for intuitionistic Strong L\"ob logic: strong termination and cut-elimination, formalised

Logic in Computer Science 2023-09-04 v1 Logic

Abstract

We provide a new sequent calculus that enjoys syntactic cut-elimination and strongly terminating backward proof search for the intuitionistic Strong L\"ob logic iSL\sf{iSL}, an intuitionistic modal logic with a provability interpretation. A novel measure on sequents is used to prove both the termination of the naive backward proof search strategy, and the admissibility of cut in a syntactic and direct way, leading to a straightforward cut-elimination procedure. All proofs have been formalised in the interactive theorem prover Coq.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00486,
  title  = {A new calculus for intuitionistic Strong L\"ob logic: strong termination and cut-elimination, formalised},
  author = {Ian Shillito and Iris van der Giessen and Rajeev Goré and Rosalie Iemhoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00486},
  year   = {2023}
}

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21-page conference paper + 4-page appendix with proofs