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Linear logic and polynomial time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2006

DAMIANO MAZZA
Affiliation:
Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy (UMR 6206), Campus de Luminy, Case 907 – 13288 Marseille Cedex 9 Email: [email protected] Homepage:http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~mazza

Abstract

Light and Elementary Linear Logic, which form key components of the interface between logic and implicit computational complexity, were originally introduced by Girard as ‘stand-alone’ logical systems with a (somewhat awkward) sequent calculus of their own. The latter was later reformulated by Danos and Joinet as a proper subsystem of linear logic, whose proofs satisfy a certain structural condition. We extend this approach to polytime computation, finding two solutions: the first is obtained by a simple extension of Danos and Joinet's condition, closely resembles Asperti's Light Affine Logic and enjoys polystep strong normalisation (the polynomial bound does not depend on the reduction strategy); the second, which needs more complex conditions, exactly corresponds to Girard's Light Linear Logic.

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2006 Cambridge University Press

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