arXiv Open Access 2025

Mathematical Knowledge Bases as Grammar-Compressed Proof Terms: Exploring Metamath Proof Structures

Christoph Wernhard Zsolt Zombori
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Viewing formal mathematical proofs as logical terms provides a powerful and elegant basis for analyzing how human experts tend to structure proofs and how proofs can be structured by automated methods. We pursue this approach by (1) combining proof structuring and grammar-based tree compression, where we show how they are inherently related, and (2) exploring ways to combine human and automated proof structuring. Our source of human-structured proofs is Metamath, which, based on condensed detachment, naturally provides a view of proofs as terms. A knowledge base is then just a grammar that compresses a set of gigantic proof trees. We present a formal account of this view, an implemented practical toolkit as well as experimental results.

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Christoph Wernhard

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Zsolt Zombori

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Wernhard, C., Zombori, Z. (2025). Mathematical Knowledge Bases as Grammar-Compressed Proof Terms: Exploring Metamath Proof Structures. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12305

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