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# Completeness of Cyclic Proofs for Symbolic Heaps

@article{Tatsuta2018CompletenessOC,
title={Completeness of Cyclic Proofs for Symbolic Heaps},
author={M. Tatsuta and K. Nakazawa and D. Kimura},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2018},
volume={abs/1804.03938}
}
• Published 2018
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• ArXiv
Separation logic is successful for software verification in both theory and practice. Decision procedure for symbolic heaps is one of the key issues. This paper proposes a cyclic proof system for symbolic heaps with general form of inductive definitions, and shows its soundness and completeness. The decision procedure for entailments of symbolic heaps with inductive definitions is also given. Decidability for entailments of symbolic heaps with inductive definitions is an important question… Expand
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