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Proving infinitary formulas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2016

AMELIA HARRISON
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (e-mail: ameliaj@cs.utexas.edu, vl@cs.utexas.edu)
VLADIMIR LIFSCHITZ
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (e-mail: ameliaj@cs.utexas.edu, vl@cs.utexas.edu)
JULIAN MICHAEL
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA (e-mail: julianjohnmichael@gmail.com)
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The infinitary propositional logic of here-and-there is important for the theory of answer set programming in view of its relation to strongly equivalent transformations of logic programs. We know a formal system axiomatizing this logic exists, but a proof in that system may include infinitely many formulas. In this note we describe a relationship between the validity of infinitary formulas in the logic of here-and-there and the provability of formulas in some finite deductive systems. This relationship allows us to use finite proofs to justify the validity of infinitary formulas.

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