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    Glivenko sequent classes in the light of structural proof theory
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 55 (3-4): 461-473. 2016.
    In 1968, Orevkov presented proofs of conservativity of classical over intuitionistic and minimal predicate logic with equality for seven classes of sequents, what are known as Glivenko classes. The proofs of these results, important in the literature on the constructive content of classical theories, have remained somehow cryptic. In this paper, direct proofs for more general extensions are given for each class by exploiting the structural properties of G3 sequent calculi; for five of the seven …Read more
  •  44
    Geometrisation of first-order logic
    with Roy Dyckhoff
    Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 21 (2): 123-163. 2015.
    That every first-order theory has a coherent conservative extension is regarded by some as obvious, even trivial, and by others as not at all obvious, but instead remarkable and valuable; the result is in any case neither sufficiently well-known nor easily found in the literature. Various approaches to the result are presented and discussed in detail, including one inspired by a problem in the proof theory of intermediate logics that led us to the proof of the present paper. It can be seen as a …Read more
  •  17
    Tychonoff's Theorem in the Framework of Formal Topologies
    with Silvio Valentini
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 62 (4): 1315-1332. 1997.
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    Proof Analysis in Modal Logic
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 34 (5-6): 507-544. 2005.
    A general method for generating contraction- and cut-free sequent calculi for a large family of normal modal logics is presented. The method covers all modal logics characterized by Kripke frames determined by universal or geometric properties and it can be extended to treat also Gödel-Löb provability logic. The calculi provide direct decision methods through terminating proof search. Syntactic proofs of modal undefinability results are obtained in the form of conservativity theorems.
  •  57
    Geometric theories are presented as contraction- and cut-free systems of sequent calculi with mathematical rules following a prescribed rule-scheme that extends the scheme given in Negri and von Plato. Examples include cut-free calculi for Robinson arithmetic and real closed fields. As an immediate consequence of cut elimination, it is shown that if a geometric implication is classically derivable from a geometric theory then it is intuitionistically derivable.
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    The theories of apartness, equality, and n-stable equality are presented through contraction- and cut-free sequent calculi. By methods of proof analysis, a purely proof-theoretic characterization of the equality fragment of apartness is obtained.
  •  93
    Structural Proof Theory
    with Jan von Plato and Aarne Ranta
    Cambridge University Press. 2001.
    Structural proof theory is a branch of logic that studies the general structure and properties of logical and mathematical proofs. This book is both a concise introduction to the central results and methods of structural proof theory, and a work of research that will be of interest to specialists. The book is designed to be used by students of philosophy, mathematics and computer science. The book contains a wealth of results on proof-theoretical systems, including extensions of such systems fro…Read more
  •  48
    Kripke completeness revisited
    In Giuseppe Primiero (ed.), Acts of Knowledge: History, Philosophy and Logic, College Publications. pp. 233--266. 2009.
  •  100
    Proof analysis in intermediate logics
    with Roy Dyckhoff
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 51 (1-2): 71-92. 2012.
    Using labelled formulae, a cut-free sequent calculus for intuitionistic propositional logic is presented, together with an easy cut-admissibility proof; both extend to cover, in a uniform fashion, all intermediate logics characterised by frames satisfying conditions expressible by one or more geometric implications. Each of these logics is embedded by the Gödel–McKinsey–Tarski translation into an extension of S4. Faithfulness of the embedding is proved in a simple and general way by constructive…Read more
  •  88
    Varieties of linear calculi
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 31 (6): 569-590. 2002.
    A uniform calculus for linear logic is presented. The calculus has the form of a natural deduction system in sequent calculus style with general introduction and elimination rules. General elimination rules are motivated through an inversion principle, the dual form of which gives the general introduction rules. By restricting all the rules to their single-succedent versions, a uniform calculus for intuitionistic linear logic is obtained. The calculus encompasses both natural deduction and seque…Read more
  •  173
    Proof Theory for Modal Logic
    Philosophy Compass 6 (8): 523-538. 2011.
    The axiomatic presentation of modal systems and the standard formulations of natural deduction and sequent calculus for modal logic are reviewed, together with the difficulties that emerge with these approaches. Generalizations of standard proof systems are then presented. These include, among others, display calculi, hypersequents, and labelled systems, with the latter surveyed from a closer perspective.
  •  119
    Decision methods for linearly ordered Heyting algebras
    with Roy Dyckhoff
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 45 (4): 411-422. 2006.
    The decision problem for positively quantified formulae in the theory of linearly ordered Heyting algebras is known, as a special case of work of Kreisel, to be solvable; a simple solution is here presented, inspired by related ideas in Gödel-Dummett logic
  •  59
    Admissibility of structural rules for contraction-free systems of intuitionistic logic
    with Roy Dyckhoff
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 65 (4): 1499-1518. 2000.
    We give a direct proof of admissibility of cut and contraction for the contraction-free sequent calculus G4ip for intuitionistic propositional logic and for a corresponding multi-succedent calculus: this proof extends easily in the presence of quantifiers, in contrast to other, indirect, proofs. i.e., those which use induction on sequent weight or appeal to admissibility of rules in other calculi
  •  54
    The continuum as a formal space
    with Daniele Soravia
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 38 (7): 423-447. 1999.
    A constructive definition of the continuum based on formal topology is given and its basic properties studied. A natural notion of Cauchy sequence is introduced and Cauchy completeness is proved. Other results include elementary proofs of the Baire and Cantor theorems. From a classical standpoint, formal reals are seen to be equivalent to the usual reals. Lastly, the relation of real numbers as a formal space to other approaches to constructive real numbers is determined
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    This book continues from where the authors' previous book, Structural Proof Theory, ended. It presents an extension of the methods of analysis of proofs in pure logic to elementary axiomatic systems and to what is known as philosophical logic. A self-contained brief introduction to the proof theory of pure logic is included that serves both the mathematically and philosophically oriented reader. The method is built up gradually, with examples drawn from theories of order, lattice theory and elem…Read more
  •  55
    A normalizing system of natural deduction for intuitionistic linear logic
    Archive for Mathematical Logic 41 (8): 789-810. 2002.
    The main result of this paper is a normalizing system of natural deduction for the full language of intuitionistic linear logic. No explicit weakening or contraction rules for -formulas are needed. By the systematic use of general elimination rules a correspondence between normal derivations and cut-free derivations in sequent calculus is obtained. Normalization and the subformula property for normal derivations follow through translation to sequent calculus and cut-elimination
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    University of Azores, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal June 30–July 4, 2010
    with Eric Allender, José L. Balcázar, Shafi Goldwasser, Denis Hirschfeldt, Toniann Pitassi, and Ronald de Wolf
    Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 17 (3). 2011.
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    Sequent calculus in natural deduction style
    Journal of Symbolic Logic 66 (4): 1803-1816. 2001.
    A sequent calculus is given in which the management of weakening and contraction is organized as in natural deduction. The latter has no explicit weakening or contraction, but vacuous and multiple discharges in rules that discharge assumptions. A comparison to natural deduction is given through translation of derivations between the two systems. It is proved that if a cut formula is never principal in a derivation leading to the right premiss of cut, it is a subformula of the conclusion. Therefo…Read more