Seminário de Lógica e Computação

Ulrich Berger

(Swansea, Great Britain)

On the computational interpretation of classical analysis

Data: 13 de Setembro de 2006
Local: 5.5.
Hora: 14h

Resumo

We discuss the proof-theoretic and computational properties of open induction, a principle which is classically equivalent to dependent choice and hence contains full classical analysis. We show that, intuitionistically, open induction and dependent choice are quite different: While dependent choice is conservative over intuitionistic arithmetic, open induction is intuitionistically as strong as classically. Via modified realizability we obtain a new direct method for extracting programs from classical proofs of Pi^0_2-formulas using open induction. We also show that the computational interpretation of classical countable choice given by Berardi, Bezem and Coquand can be derived from our results.
Este seminário é organizado com apoio do CMUC.
Reinhard Kahle, 15.09.06