15-815 Automated Theorem Proving
Lecture 16: Inverse Focusing

After a brief sketch of the completeness proof for focusing, we consider how to exploit focusing to construct a better inverse method prover. The crucial insight is that phases in focusing can be translated into derived inference rules, which avoid the creation of many intermediate sequents. Furthermore, subformulas only need to be named at the boundary between asynchronous and synchronous propositions.


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