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Rewrite-based equational theorem proving with selection and simplification. (English) Zbl 0814.68117

An abstract notion of redundancy that does not affect refutational completeness is put to reduce search space in theorem proving for several first-order calculi with equality that admit any selection of negative literals.
Reviewer: M.Armbrust (Köln)

MSC:

68T15 Theorem proving (deduction, resolution, etc.) (MSC2010)
03B35 Mechanization of proofs and logical operations
03B10 Classical first-order logic
68Q42 Grammars and rewriting systems