Abstract. We investigate the question of what constitutes a proof when quantifiers and multiplicative units are both present. On the technical level this paper provides two new as...
In 1973, Parikh proved a speed-up theorem conjectured by G¨odel 37 years before: there exist arithmetical formulæ that are provable in first order arithmetic, but whose shorter ...
Deduction modulo is a generic framework to describe proofs in a theory better than using raw axioms. This is done by presenting the theory through rules rewriting terms and proposi...
We consider formulas which, in addition to the symbols in the vocabulary, may use two designated symbols ≺ and + that must be interpreted as a linear order and its associated ad...
It is well-known that weakening and contraction cause na¨ıve categorical models of the classical sequent calculus to collapse to Boolean lattices. In previous work, summarized b...