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Description
Title
Orthomodular Lattices and Cut Elimination
Author(s)
Marble, Robert Patrick
Issue Date
1981
Department of Study
Mathematics
Discipline
Mathematics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Mathematics
Abstract
The thesis is a start toward a positive solution of the word problem for freely generated orthomodular lattices. It was a proof theoretical 'partial' cut elimination procedure.
A Gentzen type sequent calculus (OMO) is defined which can be seen to characterize a free orthomodular lattice L in the sense that two words u and v (on the generating set of L) are equal in L if and only if u (--->) v and v (--->) u are sequents which are derivable in the calculus OMO. Several types of applications of the cut rules of OMO are singled out and called benign cuts. They have the property that their application does not lead to the complete elimination of the atomic components of their cut formulas from their proof branches. Their use, then, does not hinder the recovery from an endsequent of information about all formulas used in a proof of that sequent, during an algorithmic process of deciding about the derivability of that sequent.
The inference rule which is used to manifest the orthomodularity of models of OMO is the rule OM:
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It is shown that an OMO proof of the form
where P and Q are cut-free and contain no applications of rule OM, can be reconstructed to prove the same endsequent without the use of any cuts which are not benign.
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