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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 FP\mathbf{FP} and FP/poly\mathbf{FP}/\mathsf{poly}. 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

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