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Verifying a Sequent Calculus Prover for First-Order Logic with Functions in Isabelle/HOL

Authors Asta Halkjær From , Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen

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Asta Halkjær From
  • DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen
  • DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Agnes Moesgård Eschen, Alexander Birch Jensen, Anders Schlichtkrull, Simon Tobias Lund and Jørgen Villadsen for comments on drafts. We are very grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments.

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Asta Halkjær From and Frederik Krogsdal Jacobsen. Verifying a Sequent Calculus Prover for First-Order Logic with Functions in Isabelle/HOL. In 13th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 237, pp. 13:1-13:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITP.2022.13

Abstract

We describe the design, implementation and verification of an automated theorem prover for first-order logic with functions. The proof search procedure is based on sequent calculus and we formally verify its soundness and completeness in Isabelle/HOL using an existing abstract framework for coinductive proof trees. Our analytic completeness proof covers both open and closed formulas. Since our deterministic prover considers only the subset of terms relevant to proving a given sequent, we do so as well when building a countermodel from a failed proof. Finally, we formally connect our prover with the proof system and semantics of the existing SeCaV system. In particular, the prover can generate human-readable SeCaV proofs which are also machine-verifiable proof certificates.

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  • Theory of computation → Automated reasoning
  • Theory of computation → Proof theory
  • Theory of computation → Program verification
Keywords
  • Isabelle/HOL
  • SeCaV
  • First-Order Logic
  • Prover
  • Soundness
  • Completeness

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