On the dependencies of logical rules
Abstract
Many correctness criteria have been proposed since linear
logic was introduced and it is not clear how they relate to each other.
In this paper, we study proof-nets and their correctness criteria from
the perspective of dependency, as introduced by Mogbil and Jacobé de
Naurois. We introduce a new correctness criterion, called DepGraph, and
show that together with Danos' contractibility criterion and Mogbil and
Naurois criterion, they form the three faces of a notion of dependency
which is crucial for correctness of proof-structures. Finally, we study the
logical meaning of the dependency relation and show that it allows to
recover and characterize some constraints on the ordering of inferences
which are implicit in the proof-net.