Efficient Full Higher-Order UnificationArticleAuthors: Petar Vukmirović ; Alexander Bentkamp

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Petar Vukmirović;Alexander Bentkamp;Visa Nummelin
We developed a procedure to enumerate complete sets of higher-order unifiers based on work by Jensen and Pietrzykowski. Our procedure removes many redundant unifiers by carefully restricting the search space and tightly integrating decision procedures for fragments that admit a finite complete set of unifiers.
We identify a new such fragment and describe a procedure for computing its unifiers. Our unification procedure, together with new higher-order term indexing data structures, is implemented in the Zipperposition theorem prover.
Experimental evaluation shows a clear advantage over Jensen and Pietrzykowski's procedure.
Volume: Volume 17, Issue 4
Secondary volumes: Selected Papers of the 5th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2020)
Published on: December 14, 2021
Accepted on: October 4, 2021
Submitted on: November 20, 2020
Keywords: Computer Science - Logic in Computer Science
Funding:
Source : OpenAIRE Graph- Fast Interactive Verification through Strong Higher-Order Automation; Funder: European Commission; Code: 713999