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Towards Rewriting in Coq

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Rewriting, Computation and Proof

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Equational reasoning in Coq is not straightforward. For a few years now there has been an ongoing research process towards adding rewriting to Coq. However, there are many research problems on this way. In this paper we give a coherent view of rewriting in Coq, we describe what is already done and what remains to be done.

We discuss such issues as strong normalization, confluence, logical consistency, completeness, modularity and extraction.

This work was partly supported by the Polish government grant 3 T11C 002 27 and the EU FP6 project IST-15905 Mobius.

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Chrząszcz, J., Walukiewicz-Chrząszcz, D. (2007). Towards Rewriting in Coq. In: Comon-Lundh, H., Kirchner, C., Kirchner, H. (eds) Rewriting, Computation and Proof. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4600. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73147-4_6

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