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Cut Elimination for Gentzen’s Sequent Calculus with Equality and Logic of Partial Terms

  • Franco Parlamento
  • Flavio Previale
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 7750)

Abstract

We provide a natural formulation of the sequent calculus with equality and establish the cut elimination theorem. We also briefly outline and comment on its application to the logic of partial terms, when “existence” is formulated as equality with a (bound) variable.

Keywords

Sequent Calculus Equality Cut Elimination 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Franco Parlamento
    • 1
  • Flavio Previale
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Mathematics and Computer ScienceUniversity of UdineUdineItaly
  2. 2.University of TurinTorinoItaly

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