• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: SHARPENED LOWER BOUNDS FOR CUT ELIMINATION
  • Contributor: BUSS, SAMUEL R.
  • Published: Association for Symbolic Logic, Inc., 2012
  • Published in: The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 77 (2012) 2, Seite 656-668
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2178/jsl/1333566644
  • ISSN: 0022-4812
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  • Description: We present sharpened lower bounds on the size of cut free proofs for first-order logic. Prior lower bounds for eliminating cuts from a proof established superexponential lower bounds as a stack of exponentials, with the height of the stack proportional to the maximum depth d of the formulas in the original proof. Our results remove the constant of proportionality, giving an exponential stack of height equal to d — 0(1). The proof method is based on more efficiently expressing the Gentzen-Solovay cut formulas as low depth formulas.