Theorem Proving Using Lazy Proof Explication

Many verification problems reduce to proving the validity of formulas involving both propositional connectives and domain-specific functions and predicates. This paper presents an explicating theorem prover architecture that leverages recent advances in propositional SAT solving and the development of proof-generating domain-specific procedures. We describe the implementation of an explicating prover based on this architecture that supports propositional logic, the theory of equality with uninterpreted function symbols, linear arithmetic, and the theory of arrays. We have applied this prover to a range of processor, cache coherence, and timed automata verification problems. We present experimental results on the performance of the prover, and on the performance impact of important design decisions in our implementation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CAV
• Authors: Cormac Flanagan, Rajeev Joshi, Xinming Ou, James B. Saxe
• Keywords: CAV 2003, Formal Methods, Propositional, Prover, Theorem Prover Architecture