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The first-order theory of MALL (multiplicative, additive linear logic) over only equalities is an interesting but weak logic since it cannot capture unbounded (infinite) behavior. Instead of accounting for unbounded behavior via the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-02 David Baelde

The goal of this paper is to establish that it remains undecidable whether a sequent is provable in two systems in which a weakening rule for an exponential modality is completely omitted from classical propositional linear logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jun Suzuki , Katsuhiko Sano

We give new proofs of soundness (all representable functions on base types lies in certain complexity classes) for Elementary Affine Logic, LFPL (a language for polytime computation close to realistic functional programming introduced by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 U. Dal Lago , M. Hofmann

In the realm of light logics deriving from linear logic, a number of variants of exponential rules have been investigated. The profusion of such proof systems induces the need for cut-elimination theorems for each logic, the proof of which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Esaïe Bauer , Alexis Saurin

Substructural logics are formal logical systems that omit familiar structural rules of classical and intuitionistic logic such as contraction, weakening, exchange (commutativity), and associativity. This leads to a resource-sensitive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Nikolaos Galatos , Vitor Greati , Revantha Ramanayake , Gavin St. John

We extend the theoretical framework of proof mining by establishing general logical metatheorems that allow for the extraction of the computational content of theorems with prima facie "non-computational" proofs from probability theory,…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Morenikeji Neri , Nicholas Pischke

We introduce a proper display calculus for (non-distributive) Lattice Logic which is sound, complete, conservative, and enjoys cut-elimination and sub-formula property. Properness (i.e. closure under uniform substitution of all parametric…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-12-31 Giuseppe Greco , Alessandra Palmigiano

A major open problem in proof complexity is to demonstrate that random 3-CNFs with a linear number of clauses require super-polynomial size refutations in bounded-depth Frege systems. We take the first step towards addressing this question…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Svyatoslav Gryaznov , Navid Talebanfard

We give a proof-theoretic and algorithmic complexity analysis for systems introduced by Morrill to serve as the core of the CatLog categorial grammar parser. We consider two recent versions of Morrill's calculi, and focus on their fragments…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Max Kanovich , Stepan Kuznetsov , Andre Scedrov

Motivated by the problem of finding finite versions of classical incompleteness theorems, we present some conjectures that go beyond ${\bf NP\neq co NP}$. These conjectures formally connect computational complexity with the difficulty of…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Pavel Pudlak

The large language models (LLMs) might produce a persuasive argument within mathematical and logical fields, although such argument often includes some minor missteps, including the entire omission of side conditions, invalid inference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Kranthi Kommuru , Kunal Khanvilkar , Gaurav Parekh

Consequence-based reasoning can be used to construct proofs that explain entailments of description logic (DL) ontologies. In the literature, one can find multiple consequence-based calculi for reasoning in the $\mathcal{EL}$ family of DLs,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Christian Alrabbaa , Stefan Borgwardt , Philipp Herrmann , Markus Krötzsch

This paper introduces the exponential substitution calculus (ESC), a new presentation of cut elimination for IMELL, based on proof terms and building on the idea that exponentials can be seen as explicit substitutions. The idea in itself is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Beniamino Accattoli

We prove that the problem of determining whether a finite logical matrix determines an algebraizable logic is complete for EXPTIME. The same result holds for the classes of order algebraizable, weakly algebraizable, equivalential and…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-08-05 T. Moraschini

There has been a lot of interest recently in proving lower bounds on the size of linear programs needed to represent a given polytope P. In a breakthrough paper Fiorini et al. [Proceedings of 44th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2012,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-12 Hamza Fawzi , Pablo A. Parrilo

The subject logic in computer science should entail proof theoretic applications. So the question arises whether open problems in computational complexity can be solved by advanced proof theoretic techniques. In particular, consider the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-09 L. Gordeev , E. H. Haeusler

Proof-theoretic methods are developed for subsystems of Johansson's logic obtained by extending the positive fragment of intuitionistic logic with weak negations. These methods are exploited to establish properties of the logical systems.…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Marta Bílková , Almudena Colacito

Reasoning with minimal models has always been at the core of many knowledge representation techniques, but we still have only a limited understanding of this problem in Description Logics (DLs). Minimization of some selected predicates,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Federica Di Stefano , Quentin Manière , Magdalena Ortiz , Mantas Šimkus

The ability of Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform reasoning tasks such as deduction has been widely investigated in recent years. Yet, their capacity to generate proofs-faithful, human-readable explanations of why conclusions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hui Yang , Jiaoyan Chen , Uli Sattler

Valiant's famous VP vs. VNP conjecture states that the symbolic permanent polynomial does not have polynomial-size algebraic circuits. However, the best upper bound on the size of the circuits computing the permanent is exponential.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Somnath Bhattacharjee , Markus Bläser , Pranjal Dutta , Saswata Mukherjee