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"path": "/abs/2606.10535v1",
"publishedAt": "2026-06-10T00:00:00.000Z",
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"textContent": "**Authors:** Pavel Pudlák, Neil Thapen\n\nIn the implicit version of a propositional proof system Q, we work with Q-proofs that are not written down directly, but are succinctly encoded by circuits. Thus implicit Q-proofs are potentially exponentially shorter than usual Q-proofs. We study narrow implicit proofs, a restricted version of this notion, in which lines in the encoded proof can only have polynomial size. We use a cut-elimination construction to show that G_{i+1} is equivalent to narrow implicit G_i, for i >= 1, where G_i is the extension of Frege allowing reasoning with Sigma^q_i quantified propositional formulas. We show that G_1 is equivalent to implicit resolution.",
"title": "Quantified propositional calculi and narrow implicit proofs"
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