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== Quantifiers ==
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== Equivalences ==
   
The presentation does not seem to be completely uniform concerning quantifiers: are first-order quantifiers taken into account? It would be nice.
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Equivalences might deserve a specific page (maybe merged with [[isomorphism]]s and [[equiprovability]]?).
   
A few related points:
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We might imagine a page or some pages giving a collection of [[Provable formulas|valid principles]] of linear logic (with appropriate proofs) and specifying which ones correspond to implications, equivalences or isomorphisms.
* Why a distinction between atomic formulas and propositional variables?
 
* Some mixing between <math>\forall x A</math> and <math>\forall X A</math>. I tried to propose a [[notations#formulas|convention]] on that point, but it does not match here with the use of <math>\alpha</math> for atoms.
 
* Define immediate subformula of <math>\forall X A</math> as <math>A</math>?
 
-- [[User:Olivier Laurent|Olivier Laurent]] 18:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 
   
:I improved the uniformity for quantifiers: the full system with first and second order quantification is described, only predicate variables with first-order arguments are not described.
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-- [[User:Olivier Laurent|Olivier Laurent]] 10:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
:The distinction between atomic formulas and propositional variables is because there are systems with atomic formulas that are not propositional variables but fixed predicates like equalities.
 
:I found <math>\alpha</math> to be a used notation for atomic formulas in other texts, so I used <math>\xi,\psi,\zeta</math> instead for arbitrary variables.
 
 
:Using substitution in the definition of subformulas is questionable, but if the only immediate subformula of <math>\forall\xi.A</math> is <math>A</math>, then the ''subformula'' property does not hold.
 
 
:''Edit:'' Well... my bad. The subformula property does hold if the only immediate subformula of <math>\forall\xi.A</math> is <math>A</math>, substitution is necessary only for <math>\exists\xi.A</math>. I changed it.
 
 
:-- [[User:Emmanuel Beffara|Emmanuel Beffara]]
 
 
== Two-sided sequent calculus ==
 
 
I think the terminology "two-sided sequent calculus" should be used for the system where all the connectives are involved and all the rules are duplicated (with respect to the one-sided version) and negation is a connective.
 
 
In this way, we obtain the one-sided version from the two-sided one by:
 
* quotient the formulas by de Morgan laws and get negation only on atoms, negation is defined for compound formulas (not a connective)
 
* fold all the rules by <math>\Gamma\vdash\Delta \mapsto {}\vdash\Gamma\orth,\Delta</math>
 
* remove useless rules (negation rules become identities, almost all the rules appear twice)
 
 
A possible name for the two-sided system presented here could be "two-sided positive sequent calculus".
 
 
-- [[User:Olivier Laurent|Olivier Laurent]] 21:34, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 

Latest revision as of 21:01, 25 April 2013

[edit] Equivalences

Equivalences might deserve a specific page (maybe merged with isomorphisms and equiprovability?).

We might imagine a page or some pages giving a collection of valid principles of linear logic (with appropriate proofs) and specifying which ones correspond to implications, equivalences or isomorphisms.

-- Olivier Laurent 10:39, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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