A Structural Proof of Cut Elimination and Its Representation in a Logical Framework

Abstract : We present new proofs of cut elimination for intuitionistic and classical sequent calculi. In both cases the proofs proceed by three nested structural inductions, avoiding the explicit use of multi- sets and termination measures on sequent derivations. This makes them amenable to elegant and concise representations in LF, which are given in full detail.

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