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Implicational Rewriting Tactics in HOL

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Reducing the distance between informal and formal proofs in interactive theorem proving is a long-standing matter. An approach to this general topic is to increase automation in theorem provers: indeed, automation turns many small formal steps into one big step. In spite of the usual automation methods, there are still many situations where the user has to provide some information manually, whereas this information could be derived from the context. In this paper, we characterize some very common use cases where such situations happen, and identify some general patterns behind them. We then provide solutions to deal with these situations automatically, which we implemented as HOL Light and HOL4 tactics. We find these tactics to be extremely useful in practice, both for their automation and for the feedback they provide to the user.

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  1. Software & Systems Engineering, Fortiss GmbH, Guerickestraße 25, 80805, Munich, Germany

    Vincent Aravantinos

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montreal, Canada

    Sofiène Tahar

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  2. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

    Ruben Gamboa

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Aravantinos, V., Tahar, S. (2014). Implicational Rewriting Tactics in HOL. In: Klein, G., Gamboa, R. (eds) Interactive Theorem Proving. ITP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8558. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08970-6_4

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