New Minimal Linear Inferences in Boolean Logic Independent of Switch and Medial

Authors Anupam Das , Alex A. Rice



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Anupam Das
  • University of Birmingham, UK
Alex A. Rice
  • University of Cambridge, UK

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The authors would like to thank Lutz Strassburger, Ross Horne and Matteo Acclavio for several interesting discussions surrounding this work. We are also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and suggestions.

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Anupam Das and Alex A. Rice. New Minimal Linear Inferences in Boolean Logic Independent of Switch and Medial. In 6th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 195, pp. 14:1-14:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSCD.2021.14

Abstract

A linear inference is a valid inequality of Boolean algebra in which each variable occurs at most once on each side. Equivalently, it is a linear rewrite rule on Boolean terms that constitutes a valid implication. Linear inferences have played a significant role in structural proof theory, in particular in models of substructural logics and in normalisation arguments for deep inference proof systems. Systems of linear logic and, later, deep inference are founded upon two particular linear inferences, switch : x ∧ (y ∨ z) → (x ∧ y) ∨ z, and medial : (w ∧ x) ∨ (y ∧ z) → (w ∨ y) ∧ (x ∨ z). It is well-known that these two are not enough to derive all linear inferences (even modulo all valid linear equations), but beyond this little more is known about the structure of linear inferences in general. In particular despite recurring attention in the literature, the smallest linear inference not derivable under switch and medial ("switch-medial-independent") was not previously known. In this work we leverage recently developed graphical representations of linear formulae to build an implementation that is capable of more efficiently searching for switch-medial-independent inferences. We use it to find two "minimal" 8-variable independent inferences and also prove that no smaller ones exist; in contrast, a previous approach based directly on formulae reached computational limits already at 7 variables. One of these new inferences derives some previously found independent linear inferences. The other exhibits structure seemingly beyond the scope of previous approaches we are aware of; in particular, its existence contradicts a conjecture of Das and Strassburger.

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  • Theory of computation → Equational logic and rewriting
  • Theory of computation → Proof theory
  • Theory of computation → Linear logic
Keywords
  • rewriting
  • linear inference
  • proof theory
  • linear logic
  • implementation

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