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Exponential Gaps Between Intuitionistic Linear Extended Frege Systems
Abstract
In this paper, we establish exponential separations between Extended Frege systems for a range of intuitionistic substructural and linear logics. More precisely, for any logic L below the intuitionistic logic obtained by extending ILL with structural rules, and any logic M not contained in L, we construct a family of FLe-provable formulas that have short proofs in M-Frege but require proofs of exponential size in L-Extended Frege. The same result holds in the !-free settings, using IMALL and FLe in place of ILL. The key ingredient in proving these separations is a variant of the feasible disjunction property for L-Frege, which may be of independent interest.
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BibTeX
@misc{tabatabai2026exponential,
title = {{Exponential Gaps Between Intuitionistic Linear Extended Frege Systems}},
author = {Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.00422},
eprint = {2609.00422},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00422},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Exponential Gaps Between Intuitionistic Linear Extended Frege Systems
AU - Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.00422
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00422
AB - In this paper, we establish exponential separations between Extended Frege systems for a range of intuitionistic substructural and linear logics. More precisely, for any logic L below the intuitionistic logic obtained by extending ILL with structural rules, and any logic M not contained in L, we construct a family of FL_e-provable formulas that have short proofs in M-Frege but require proofs of exponential size in L-Extended Frege. The same result holds in the !-free settings, using IMALL and FL_e in place of ILL. The key ingredient in proving these separations is a variant of the feasible disjunction property for L-Frege, which may be of independent interest.
ER -