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Proving Bounds for Real Linear Programs in Isabelle/HOL Obua, Steven Certified proofs Kepler conjecture Linear programming is a basic mathematical technique for optimizing a linear function on a domain that is constrained by linear inequalities. We restrict ourselves to linear programs on bounded domains that involve only real variables. In the context of theorem proving, this restriction makes it possible for any given linear program to obtain certificates from external linear programming tools that help to prove arbitrarily precise bounds for the given linear program. To this end, an explicit formalization of matrices in Isabelle/HOL is presented, and how the concept of lattice-ordered rings allows for a smooth integration of matrices with the axiomatic type classes of Isabelle. As our work is a contribution to the Flyspeck project, we demonstrate that via reflection and with the above techniques it is now possible to prove bounds for the linear programs arising in the proof of the Kepler conjecture sufficiently fast. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Steven Obua 2006 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 5021, Mathematics, Algorithms, Proofs (2006) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.05021.18 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-4351 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.05021.18 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode