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A proof theoretic study of abstract termination principles

Logic in Computer Science 2019-02-25 v2 Logic

Abstract

We carry out a proof theoretic analysis of the wellfoundedness of recursive path orders in an abstract setting. We outline a very general termination principle and extract from its wellfoundedness proof subrecursive bounds on the size of derivation trees which can be defined in G\"{o}del's system T plus bar recursion. We then carry out a complexity analysis of these terms, and demonstrate how this can be applied to bound the derivational complexity of term rewrite systems.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03577,
  title  = {A proof theoretic study of abstract termination principles},
  author = {Thomas Powell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03577},
  year   = {2019}
}
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