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Implicit proofs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Jan Krajíček
Jan Krajíček*
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Academy of Sciences, Žitná 25, Prague 1, CZ-115 67, The Czech Republic, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract.

We describe a general method how to construct from a prepositional proof system P a possibly much stronger proof system iP. The system iP operates with exponentially long P-proofs described “implicitly” by polynomial size circuits.

As an example we prove that proof system iEF, implicit EF, corresponds to bounded arithmetic theory and hence, in particular, polynomially simulates the quantified prepositional calculus G and the -consequences of proved with one use of exponentiation. Furthermore, the soundness of iEF is not provable in . An iteration of the construction yields a proof system corresponding to T2 + Exp and, in principle, to much stronger theories.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 387 - 397
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2004

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