Abstract
AbstractWe 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 the same 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. The abstract framework we rely on requires us to fix a stream of proof rules in advance, independently of the formula we are trying to prove. We discuss the efficiency implications of this and the difficulties in mitigating them.
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Technical University of Denmark
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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