Title
Lemma Matching for a PTTP-based Top-down Theorem Prover
Abstract
In this paper, we study the efficiency and limitation of various forms of lemma matching, which is intended to speed up top-down theorem proving. In general, top-down theorem proving involves a huge amount of redundancy, which are caused by recomputation of identical goals and/or by irrelevant computation to a targeted goal, and so on. Lemma matching has the ability of preventing some of these redundant computations. Lemma matching rules are mandatory in the sense that all other alternative rules can be discarded as soon as the lemma matching is successfully applied. Thus lemma matching rules have stable efficiency for speeding up top-down proof search. Moreover almost all lemma matching rules are in rather simple forms, thus they are quite easy to implement. We have implemented them in a top-down theorem prover based on PTTP [19, 20]. We report good experimental results, and compare them with the results by OTTER [15] and SETHEO [8].
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1007/3-540-63104-6_16
CADE
Keywords
Field
DocType
pttp-based top-down theorem prover,lemma matching,theorem proving,theorem prover,top down
Model elimination,Discrete mathematics,Valiant–Vazirani theorem,Computer science,Automated theorem proving,Algorithm,Redundancy (engineering),Rule of inference,Lemma (mathematics),Computation,Speedup
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
1249
3-540-63104-6
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.72
16
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Koji Iwanuma113817.65