Towards Automated Readable Proofs of Ruler and Compass Constructions

Vesna Marinković
(Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade)
Tijana Šukilović
(Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade)
Filip Marić
(Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade)

Although there are several systems that successfully generate construction steps for ruler and compass construction problems, none of them provides readable synthetic correctness proofs for generated constructions. In the present work, we demonstrate how our triangle construction solver ArgoTriCS can cooperate with automated theorem provers for first order logic and coherent logic so that it generates construction correctness proofs, that are both human-readable and formal (can be checked by interactive theorem provers such as Coq or Isabelle/HOL). These proofs currently rely on many high-level lemmas and our goal is to have them all formally shown from the basic axioms of geometry.

In Pedro Quaresma and Zoltán Kovács: Proceedings 14th International Conference on Automated Deduction in Geometry (ADG 2023), Belgrade, Serbia, 20-22th September 2023, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 398, pp. 11–20.
Published: 22nd January 2024.

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