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We characterize provability in intuitionistic logic with equality in terms of a constraint calculus. This characterization uncovers close connections between provability in intuitionistic logic with equality and solutions to simultaneous rigid E-unification. We show that the problem of existence of a sequent proof with a given skeleton is polynomial-time equivalent to simultaneous rigid E-unifiability. This gives us a proof procedure for intuitionistic logic with equality modulo simultaneous rigid E-unification. We also show that simultaneous rigid E-unifiability is polynomial-time reducible to intuitionistic logic with equality. Thus, any proof procedure for intuitionistic logic with equality can be considered as a procedure for simultaneous rigid E-unifiability. In turn, any procedure for simultaneous rigid E-unifiability gives a procedure for establishing provability in intuitionistic logic with equality.
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Voronkov, A. (1996). Proof-search in intuitionistic logic with equality, or back to simultaneous rigid E-unification. In: McRobbie, M.A., Slaney, J.K. (eds) Automated Deduction — Cade-13. CADE 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1104. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61511-3_67
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