## Strong cut-elimination in sequent calculus using Klop’s $$\iota$$-translation and perpetual reductions.(English)Zbl 1168.03041

The strong cut-elimination theorem (all sufficiently long reduction sequences terminate) is obviously false: one can infinitely permute two adjacent cuts. A. Dragalin [Mathematical intuitionism. Introduction to proof theory. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, 67. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (1988; Zbl 0634.03054), Supplement 5] gave a simple proof of a strong cut-elimination with two restrictions. 1. Permuting two adjacent cuts is prohibited. 2. Essential reduction (replacing a cut by smaller cuts) is allowed only when the cut formula does not have predecessors in the premises of the cut.
The present paper treats intuitionistic implicational propositional calculus and proves strong cut elimination for a more complicated set of cut reductions when the second restriction is weakened. The proof transfers to the sequent calculus a strong normalization proof for natural deduction (simply typed $$\lambda$$-calculus) due to W. Klop using a translation to $$\lambda I$$-calculus to take account of the derivations “lost” in $$\beta$$-reduction.

### MSC:

 03F05 Cut-elimination and normal-form theorems

### Keywords:

strong cut-elimination

Zbl 0634.03054
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