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Register a new userOn the relative proof complexity of deep inference via atomic flows
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Anupam Das
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2015
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We consider the proof complexity of the minimal complete fragment, KS, of standard deep inference systems for propositional logic. To examine the size of proofs we employ atomic flows, diagrams that trace structural changes through a proof but ignore logical information. As results we obtain a polynomial simulation
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