Non-wellfounded parsimonious proofs and non-uniform complexity
Logic in Computer Science
2025-09-12 v3
Abstract
In this paper we investigate the complexity-theoretical aspects of cyclic and non-wellfounded proofs in the context of parsimonious logic, a variant of linear logic where the exponential modality ! is interpreted as a constructor for streams over finite data. We present non-wellfounded parsimonious proof systems capturing the classes and . Soundness is established via a polynomial modulus of continuity for continuous cut-elimination. Completeness relies on an encoding of polynomial Turing machines with advice within a type assignment system based on parsimonious logic. As a byproduct of our proof methods, we establish a series of characterisation results for various finitary proof systems.
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@article{arxiv.2404.03311,
title = {Non-wellfounded parsimonious proofs and non-uniform complexity},
author = {Matteo Acclavio and Gianluca Curzi and Giulio Guerrieri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.03311},
year = {2025}
}
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52 pages