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On Stronger Calculi for QBFs

Logic in Computer Science 2016-04-25 v1

Abstract

Quantified Boolean formulas (QBFs) generalize propositional formulas by admitting quantifications over propositional variables. QBFs can be viewed as (restricted) formulas of first-order predicate logic and easy translations of QBFs into first-order formulas exist. We analyze different translations and show that first-order resolution combined with such translations can polynomially simulate well-known deduction concepts for QBFs. Furthermore, we extend QBF calculi by the possibility to instantiate a universal variable by an existential variable of smaller level. Combining such an enhanced calculus with the propositional extension rule results in a calculus with a universal quantifier rule which essentially introduces propositional formulas for universal variables. In this way, one can mimic a very general quantifier rule known from sequent systems.

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@article{arxiv.1604.06483,
  title  = {On Stronger Calculi for QBFs},
  author = {Uwe Egly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06483},
  year   = {2016}
}
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