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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 treatment 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 paramodulation are drawn (only) from a set of positive unit clauses, the candidate model. 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, but we briefly describe the implementation, too.
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Baumgartner, P., Furbach, U., Pelzer, B. (2007). Hyper Tableaux with Equality. In: Pfenning, F. (eds) Automated Deduction – CADE-21. CADE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4603. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73595-3_36
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