Peter Baumgartner, Ulrich Furbach, Björn Pelzer. The Hyper Tableaux Calculus with Equality and an Application to Finite Model Computation. Journal of Logic and Computation, November 2008.
In most theorem proving applications, a proper treatment of equational theories or equality is mandatory. In this paper we show how to integrate a modern treat- ment of equality in the hyper tableau calculus. It is based on splitting of positive clauses and an adapted version of the superposition inference rule, where equations used for superposition are drawn (only) from a set of positive unit clauses, and superposition inferences into positive literals is restricted into (positive) unit clauses only. The calculus also features a generic, semantically justified simplification rule which covers many redundancy elimination techniques known from superposition theorem proving. Our main results are soundness and completeness of the calculus, but we also show how to apply the calculus for finite model computation, and we briefly describe the implementation
@article{Baumgartner:Furbach:Pelzer:HyperTableauxCalculusEquality:2008,
Author = {Baumgartner, Peter and Furbach, Ulrich and Pelzer, Björn},
Title = {{The Hyper Tableaux Calculus with Equality and an Application to Finite Model Computation}},
Journal = {Journal of Logic and Computation},
Month = {November},
Year = {2008}
}
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