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Unsound Inferences Make Proofs Shorter

Logic 2019-05-07 v2 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We give examples of calculi that extend Gentzen's sequent calculus LK by unsound quantifier inferences in such a way that (i) derivations lead only to true sequents, and (ii) proofs therein are non-elementarily shorter than LK-proofs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1608.07703,
  title  = {Unsound Inferences Make Proofs Shorter},
  author = {Juan P. Aguilera and Matthias Baaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.07703},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

21 pages. July 2017 preprint

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