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What you always wanted to know about rigid E-unification

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Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 1996)

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This paper solves an open problem posed by a number of researchers: the construction of a complete calculus for matrix-based methods with rigid E-unification. The use of rigid E-unification and simultaneous rigid E-unification for such methods has been proposed by Gallier, Raatz and Snyder [35]. After our proof of the undecidability of simultaneous rigid E-unification [22] it has become clear that one should look for more refined techniques to deal with equality in matrix-based methods. In this article, we define a complete proof procedure for firstorder logic with equality based on an incomplete but terminating procedure for rigid E-unification. Our approach is applicable to the connection method and the tableau method and illustrated on the tableau method.

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Degtyarev, A., Voronkov, A. (1996). What you always wanted to know about rigid E-unification. In: Alferes, J.J., Pereira, L.M., Orlowska, E. (eds) Logics in Artificial Intelligence. JELIA 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61630-6_4

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