A Decision Procedure for Geometry in Coq

Julien Narboux (1, 2)

1 LIX - Laboratoire d'informatique de l'École polytechnique [Palaiseau]
2 LOGICAL - Logic and computing

We present in this paper the development of a decision procedure for affine plane geometry in the Coq proof assistant. Among the existing decision methods, we have chosen to implement one based on the area method developed by Chou, Gao and Zhang, which provides short and ``readable'' proofs for geometry theorems. The idea of the method is to express the goal to be proved using three geometric quantities and eliminate points in the reverse order of their construction thanks to some elimination lemmas.

Mots clés: area method; Coq; geometry; formal proof

Domaines: Logique en informatique [cs.LO]; Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur; Logiciel mathématique [cs.MS]

Julien Narboux. A Decision Procedure for Geometry in Coq. Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics 2004, Jul 2004, Park City, USA, United States. pp.225-240, ⟨10.1007/b100400⟩. ⟨inria-00001035⟩