E(1) User Commands E(1) NAME E - manual page for E 2.6 Floral Guranse (8e8bfa2a3f682a4a7d96975eaa7b1133c4267b13) SYNOPSIS eprover [options] [files] DESCRIPTION E 2.6 "Floral Guranse" Read a set of first-order clauses and formulae and try to refute it. OPTIONS -h --help Print a short description of program usage and options. -V --version Print the version number of the prover. Please include this with all bug reports (if any). -v --verbose[=<arg>] Verbose comments on the progress of the program. This differs from the output level (below) in that technical information is printed to stderr, while the output level determines which logical manipula- tions of the clauses are printed to stdout. The short form or the long form without the optional argument is equivalent to --ver- bose=1. -o <arg> --output-file=<arg> Redirect output into the named file. -s --silent Equivalent to --output-level=0. -l <arg> --output-level=<arg> Select an output level, greater values imply more verbose output. Level 0 produces nearly no output, level 1 will output each clause as it is processed, level 2 will output generating inferences, level 3 will give a full protocol including rewrite steps and level 4 will include some internal clause renamings. Levels >= 2 also imply PCL2 or TSTP formats (which can be post-processed with suitable tools). -p --proof-object[=<arg>] Generate (and print, in case of success) an internal proof object. Level 0 will not print a proof object, level 1 will build asimple, compact proof object that only contains inference rules and depen- dencies, level 2 will build a proof object where inferences are un- ambiguously described by giving inference positions, and level 3 will expand this to a proof object where all intermediate results are explicit. This feature is under development, so far only level 0 and 1 are operational. By default The proof object will be provided in TPTP-3 or LOP syntax, depending on input format and explicit set- tings. The following option will suppress normal output of the proof object in favour of a graphial representation. The short form or the long form without the optional argument is equivalent to --proof-ob- ject=1. --proof-graph[=<arg>] Generate (and print, in case of success) an internal proof object in the form of a GraphViz dot graph. The optional argument can be 1 (nodes are labelled with just the name of the clause/formula), 2 (nodes are labelled with the TPTP clause/formula) or 3 (nodes also labelled with source/inference record. The option without the op- tional argument is equivalent to --proof-graph=3. -d --full-deriv Include all derived formuas/clauses in the proof graph/proof object, not just the ones contributing to the actual proof. --force-deriv[=<arg>] Force output of the derivation even in cases where the prover termi- nates in an indeterminate state. By default, the deriviation of all processed clauses is included in the derivation object. With value 2, derivation of all clauses will be printed The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --force-deriv=1. --record-gcs Record given-clause selection as separate (pseudo-)inferences and preserve the form of given clauses evaluated and selected via archiving for analysis and possibly machine learning. --training-examples[=<arg>] Generate and process training examples from the proof search object. Implies --record-gcs. The argument is a binary or of the desired processig. Bit zero prints positive exampels. Bit 1 prints negative examples. Additional selectors will be added later. The option with- out the optional argument is equivalent to --training-examples=1. --pcl-terms-compressed Print terms in the PCL output in shared representation. --pcl-compact Print PCL steps without additional spaces for formatting (safes disk space for large protocols). --pcl-shell-level[=<arg>] Determines level to which clauses and formulas are suppressed in the output. Level 0 will print all, level 1 will only print initial clauses/formulas, level 2 will print no clauses or axioms. All lev- els will still print the dependency graph. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --pcl-shell-level=1. --print-statistics Print the inference statistics (only relevant for output level 0, otherwise they are printed automatically. -0 --print-detailed-statistics Print data about the proof state that is potentially expensive to collect. Includes number of term cells and number of rewrite steps. -S --print-saturated[=<arg>] Print the (semi-) saturated clause sets after terminating the satu- ration process. The argument given describes which parts should be printed in which order. Legal characters are 'teigEIGaA', standing for type declarations, processed positive units, processed negative units, processed non-units, unprocessed positive units, unprocessed negative units, unprocessed non-units, and two types of additional equality axioms, respectively. Equality axioms will only be printed if the original specification contained real equality. In this case, 'a' requests axioms in which a separate substitutivity axiom is given for each argument position of a function or predicate symbol, while 'A' requests a single substitutivity axiom (covering all posi- tions) for each symbol. The short form or the long form without the optional argument is equivalent to --print-saturated=eigEIG. --print-sat-info Print additional information (clause number, weight, etc) as a com- ment for clauses from the semi-saturated end system. --filter-saturated[=<arg>] Filter the (semi-) saturated clause sets after terminating the saturation process. The argument is a string describing which opera- tions to take (and in which order). Options are 'u' (remove all clauses with more than one literal), 'c' (delete all but one copy of identical clauses, 'n', 'r', 'f' (forward contraction, unit-subsump- tion only, no rewriting, rewriting with rules only, full rewriting, respectively), and 'N', 'R' and 'F' (as their lower case counter- parts, but with non-unit-subsumption enabled as well). The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --filter-satu- rated=Fc. --prune Stop after relevancy pruning, SInE pruning, and output of the ini- tial clause- and formula set. This will automatically set output level to 4 so that the pruned problem specification is printed. Note that the desired pruning methods must still be specified (e.g. '--sine=Auto'). --cnf Convert the input problem into clause normal form and print it. This is (nearly) equivalent to '--print-saturated=eigEIG --processed-clauses-limit=0' and will by default perform some usu- ally useful simplifications. You can additionally specify e.g. '--no-preprocessing' if you want just the result of CNF translation. --print-pid Print the process id of the prover as a comment after option pro- cessing. --print-version Print the version number of the prover as a comment after option processing. Note that unlike -version, the prover will not termi- nate, but proceed normally. --error-on-empty Return with an error code if the input file contains no clauses. Formally, the empty clause set (as an empty conjunction of clauses) is trivially satisfiable, and E will treat any empty input set as satisfiable. However, in composite systems this is more often a sign that something went wrong. Use this option to catch such bugs. -m <arg> --memory-limit=<arg> Limit the memory the prover may use. The argument is the allowed amount of memory in MB. If you use the argument 'Auto', the system will try to figure out the amount of physical memory of your machine and claim most of it. This option may not work everywhere, due to broken and/or strange behaviour of setrlimit() in some UNIX imple- mentations, and due to the fact that I know of no portable way to figure out the physical memory in a machine. Both the option and the 'Auto' version do work under all tested versions of Solaris and GNU/Linux. Due to problems with limit data types, it is currently impossible to set a limit of more than 2 GB (2048 MB). --cpu-limit[=<arg>] Limit the cpu time the prover should run. The optional argument is the CPU time in seconds. The prover will terminate immediately after reaching the time limit, regardless of internal state. This option may not work everywhere, due to broken and/or strange behaviour of setrlimit() in some UNIX implementations. It does work under all tested versions of Solaris, HP-UX, MacOS-X, and GNU/Linux. As a side effect, this option will inhibit core file writing. Please note that if you use both --cpu-limit and --soft-cpu-limit, the soft limit has to be smaller than the hard limit to have any effect. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --cpu-limit=300. --soft-cpu-limit[=<arg>] Limit the cpu time the prover should spend in the main saturation phase. The prover will then terminate gracefully, i.e. it will per- form post-processing, filtering and printing of unprocessed clauses, if these options are selected. Note that for some filtering options (in particular those which perform full subsumption), the post-pro- cessing time may well be larger than the saturation time. This op- tion is particularly useful if you want to use E as a preprocessor or lemma generator in a larger system. The option without the op- tional argument is equivalent to --soft-cpu-limit=290. -R --resources-info Give some information about the resources used by the prover. You will usually get CPU time information. On systems returning more in- formation with the rusage() system call, you will also get informa- tion about memory consumption. --print-strategy Print a representation of all search parameters and their setting. Then terminate. -C <arg> --processed-clauses-limit=<arg> Set the maximal number of clauses to process (i.e. the number of traversals of the main-loop). -P <arg> --processed-set-limit=<arg> Set the maximal size of the set of processed clauses. This differs from the previous option in that redundant and back-simplified processed clauses are not counted. -U <arg> --unprocessed-limit=<arg> Set the maximal size of the set of unprocessed clauses. This is a termination condition, not something to use to control the deletion of bad clauses. Compare --delete-bad-limit. -T <arg> --total-clause-set-limit=<arg> Set the maximal size of the set of all clauses. See previous option. --generated-limit=<arg> Set the maximal number of generated clauses before the proof search stops. This is a reasonable (though not great) estimate of the work done. --tb-insert-limit=<arg> Set the maximal number of of term bank term top insertions. This is a reasonable (though not great) estimate of the work done. --answers[=<arg>] Set the maximal number of answers to print for existentially quanti- fied questions. Without this option, the prover terminates after the first answer found. If the value is different from 1, the prover is no longer guaranteed to terminate, even if there is a finite number of answers. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --answers=2147483647. --conjectures-are-questions Treat all conjectures as questions to be answered. This is a wart necessary because CASC-J6 has categories requiring answers, but does not yet support the 'question' type for formulas. -n --eqn-no-infix In LOP, print equations in prefix notation equal(x,y). -e --full-equational-rep In LOP. print all literals as equations, even non-equational ones. --lop-in Set E-LOP as the input format. If no input format is selected by this or one of the following options, E will guess the input format based on the first token. It will almost always correctly recognize TPTP-3, but it may misidentify E-LOP files that use TPTP meta-iden- tifiers as logical symbols. --pcl-out Set PCL as the proof object output format. --tptp-in Set TPTP-2 as the input format (but note that includes are still handled according to TPTP-3 semantics). --tptp-out Print TPTP format instead of E-LOP. Implies --eqn-no-infix and will ignore --full-equational-rep. --tptp-format Equivalent to --tptp-in and --tptp-out. --tptp2-in Synonymous with --tptp-in. --tptp2-out Synonymous with --tptp-out. --tptp2-format Synonymous with --tptp-format. --tstp-in Set TPTP-3 as the input format (Note that TPTP-3 syntax is still un- der development, and the version in E may not be fully conforming at all times. E works on all TPTP 6.3.0 FOF and CNF files (including includes). --tstp-out Print output clauses in TPTP-3 syntax. In particular, for output levels >=2, write derivations as TPTP-3 derivations. --tstp-format Equivalent to --tstp-in and --tstp-out. --tptp3-in Synonymous with --tstp-in. --tptp3-out Synonymous with --tstp-out. --tptp3-format Synonymous with --tstp-format. --auto Automatically determine settings for proof search. This is equiva- lent to -xAuto -tAuto --sine=Auto. --satauto Automatically determine settings for proof/saturation search. This is equivalent to -xAuto -tAuto. --autodev Automatically determine settings for proof search (development ver- sion). This is equivalent to -xAutoDev -tAutoDev --sine=Auto. --satautodev Automatically determine settings for proof/saturation search (devel- opment version). This is equivalent to -xAutoDev -tAutoDev. --auto-schedule Use the (experimental) strategy scheduling. This will try several different fully specified search strategies (aka "Auto-Modes"), one after the other, until a proof or saturation is found, or the time limit is exceeded. --satauto-schedule Use the (experimental) strategy scheduling without SInE, thus main- taining completeness. --schedule-kind=<arg> Choose a schedule kind that is more optimized for different pur- poses: CASC is optimized for general-purpose theorem proving, while SH is optimized for theorem low-timeout theorem proving. --no-preprocessing Do not perform preprocessing on the initial clause set. Preprocess- ing currently removes tautologies and orders terms, literals and clauses in a certain ("canonical") way before anything else happens. Unless limited by one of the following options, it will also unfold equational definitions. --eq-unfold-limit=<arg> During preprocessing, limit unfolding (and removing) of equational definitions to those where the expanded definition is at most the given limit bigger (in terms of standard weight) than the defined term. --eq-unfold-maxclauses=<arg> During preprocessing, don't try unfolding of equational definitions if the problem has more than this limit of clauses. --no-eq-unfolding During preprocessing, abstain from unfolding (and removing) equa- tional definitions. --sine[=<arg>] Apply SInE to prune the unprocessed axioms with the specified fil- ter. 'Auto' will automatically pick a filter. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --sine=Auto. --rel-pruning-level[=<arg>] Perform relevancy pruning up to the given level on the unprocessed axioms. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --rel-pruning-level=3. --presat-simplify Before proper saturation do a complete interreduction of the proof state. --ac-handling[=<arg>] Select AC handling mode, i.e. determine what to do with redundant AC tautologies. The default is equivalent to 'DiscardAll', the other possible values are 'None' (to disable AC handling), 'KeepUnits', and 'KeepOrientable'. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --ac-handling=KeepUnits. --ac-non-aggressive Do AC resolution on negative literals only on processing (by de- fault, AC resolution is done after clause creation). Only effective if AC handling is not disabled. -W <arg> --literal-selection-strategy=<arg> Choose a strategy for selection of negative literals. There are two special values for this option: NoSelection will select no literal (i.e. perform normal superposition) and NoGeneration will inhibit all generating inferences. For a list of the other (hopefully self-documenting) values run 'eprover -W none'. There are two vari- ants of each strategy. The one prefixed with 'P' will allow paramod- ulation into maximal positive literals in addition to paramodulation into maximal selected negative literals. --no-generation Don't perform any generating inferences (equivalent to --literal-se- lection-strategy=NoGeneration). --select-on-processing-only Perform literal selection at processing time only (i.e. select only in the _given clause_), not before clause evaluation. This is rele- vant because many clause selection heuristics give special consider- ation to maximal or selected literals. -i --inherit-paramod-literals Always select the negative literals a previous inference paramodu- lated into (if possible). If no such literal exists, select as dic- tated by the selection strategy. -j --inherit-goal-pm-literals In a goal (all negative clause), always select the negative literals a previous inference paramodulated into (if possible). If no such literal exists, select as dictated by the selection strategy. --inherit-conjecture-pm-literals In a conjecture-derived clause, always select the negative literals a previous inference paramodulated into (if possible). If no such literal exists, select as dictated by the selection strategy. --selection-pos-min=<arg> Set a lower limit for the number of positive literals a clause must have to be eligible for literal selection. --selection-pos-max=<arg> Set a upper limit for the number of positive literals a clause can have to be eligible for literal selection. --selection-neg-min=<arg> Set a lower limit for the number of negative literals a clause must have to be eligible for literal selection. --selection-neg-max=<arg> Set a upper limit for the number of negative literals a clause can have to be eligible for literal selection. --selection-all-min=<arg> Set a lower limit for the number of literals a clause must have to be eligible for literal selection. --selection-all-max=<arg> Set an upper limit for the number of literals a clause must have to be eligible for literal selection. --selection-weight-min=<arg> Set the minimum weight a clause must have to be eligible for literal selection. --prefer-initial-clauses Always process all initial clauses first. -x <arg> --expert-heuristic=<arg> Select one of the clause selection heuristics. Currently at least available: Auto, Weight, StandardWeight, RWeight, FIFO, LIFO, Uniq, UseWatchlist. For a full list check HEURISTICS/che_proofcontrol.c. Auto is recommended if you only want to find a proof. It is special in that it will also set some additional options. To have optimal performance, you also should specify -tAuto to select a good term ordering. LIFO is unfair and will make the prover incomplete. Uniq is used internally and is not very useful in most cases. You can de- fine more heuristics using the option -H (see below). --filter-orphans-limit[=<arg>] Orphans are unprocessed clauses where one of the parents has been removed by back-simolification. They are redundant and usually re- moved lazily (i.e. only when they are selected for processing). With this option you can select a limit on back-simplified clauses after which orphans will be eagerly deleted. The option without the op- tional argument is equivalent to --filter-orphans-limit=100. --forward-contract-limit[=<arg>] Set a limit on the number of processed clauses after which the un- processed clause set will be re-simplified and reweighted. The op- tion without the optional argument is equivalent to --forward-con- tract-limit=80000. --delete-bad-limit[=<arg>] Set the number of storage units after which bad clauses are deleted without further consideration. This causes the prover to be poten- tially incomplete, but will allow you to limit the maximum amount of memory used fairly well. The prover will tell you if a proof attempt failed due to the incompleteness introduced by this option. It is recommended to set this limit significantly higher than --fil- ter-limit or --filter-copies-limit. If you select -xAuto and set a memory limit, the prover will determine a good value automatically. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --delete-bad-limit=1500000. --assume-completeness There are various way (e.g. the next few options) to configure the prover to be strongly incomplete in the general case. E will detect when such an option is selected and return corresponding exit states (i.e. it will not claim satisfiability just because it ran out of unprocessed clauses). If you _know_ that for your class of problems the selected strategy is still complete, use this option to tell the system that this is the case. --assume-incompleteness This option instructs the prover to assume incompleteness (typically because the axiomatization already is incomplete because axioms have been filtered before they are handed to the system. --disable-eq-factoring Disable equality factoring. This makes the prover incomplete for general non-Horn problems, but helps for some specialized classes. It is not necessary to disable equality factoring for Horn problems, as Horn clauses are not factored anyways. --disable-paramod-into-neg-units Disable paramodulation into negative unit clause. This makes the prover incomplete in the general case, but helps for some special- ized classes. --condense Enable condensing for the given clause. Condensing replaces a clause by a more general factor (if such a factor exists). --condense-aggressive Enable condensing for the given and newly generated clauses. --disable-given-clause-fw-contraction Disable simplification and subsumption of the newly selected given clause (clauses are still simplified when they are generated). In general, this breaks some basic assumptions of the DISCOUNT loop proof search procedure. However, there are some problem classes in which this simplifications empirically never occurs. In such cases, we can save significant overhead. The option _should_ work in all cases, but is not expected to improve things in most cases. --simul-paramod Use simultaneous paramodulation to implement superposition. Default is to use plain paramodulation. --oriented-simul-paramod Use simultaneous paramodulation for oriented from-literals. This is an experimental feature. --supersimul-paramod Use supersimultaneous paramodulation to implement superposition. De- fault is to use plain paramodulation. --oriented-supersimul-paramod Use supersimultaneous paramodulation for oriented from-literals. This is an experimental feature. --split-clauses[=<arg>] Determine which clauses should be subject to splitting. The argument is the binary 'OR' of values for the desired classes: 1: Horn clauses 2: Non-Horn clauses 4: Negative clauses 8: Positive clauses 16: Clauses with both positive and negative literals Each set bit adds that class to the set of clauses which will be split. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --split-clauses=7. --split-method=<arg> Determine how to treat ground literals in splitting. The argument is either '0' to denote no splitting of ground literals (they are all assigned to the first split clause produced), '1' to denote that all ground literals should form a single new clause, or '2', in which case ground literals are treated as usual and are all split off into individual clauses. --split-aggressive Apply splitting to new clauses (after simplification) and before evaluation. By default, splitting (if activated) is only performed on selected clauses. --split-reuse-defs If possible, reuse previous definitions for splitting. -t <arg> --term-ordering=<arg> Select an ordering type (currently Auto, LPO, LPO4, KBO or KBO6). -tAuto is suggested, in particular with -xAuto. KBO and KBO6 are different implementations of the same ordering, KBO6 is usually faster and has had more testing. Similarly, LPO4 is a new, equiva- lent but superior implementation of LPO. -w <arg> --order-weight-generation=<arg> Select a method for the generation of weights for use with the term ordering. Run 'eprover -w none' for a list of options. --order-weights=<arg> Describe a (partial) assignments of weights to function symbols for term orderings (in particular, KBO). You can specify a list of weights of the form 'f1:w1,f2:w2, ...'. Since a total weight assign- ment is needed, E will _first_ apply any weight generation scheme specified (or the default one), and then modify the weights as spec- ified. Note that E performs only very basic sanity checks, so you probably can specify weights that break KBO constraints. -G <arg> --order-precedence-generation=<arg> Select a method for the generation of a precedence for use with the term ordering. Run 'eprover -G none' for a list of options. --prec-pure-conj[=<arg>] Set a weight for symbols that occur in conjectures only to deter- minewhere to place it in the precedence. This value is used for a roughpre-order, the normal schemes only sort within symbols with the sameoccurance modifier. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --prec-pure-conj=10. --prec-conj-axiom[=<arg>] Set a weight for symbols that occur in both conjectures and axiomsto determine where to place it in the precedence. This value is used for a rough pre-order, the normal schemes only sort within symbols with the same occurance modifier. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --prec-conj-axiom=5. --prec-pure-axiom[=<arg>] Set a weight for symbols that occur in axioms only to determine where to place it in the precedence. This value is used for a rough pre-order, the normal schemes only sort within symbols with the same occurance modifier. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --prec-pure-axiom=2. --prec-skolem[=<arg>] Set a weight for Skolem symbols to determine where to place it in the precedence. This value is used for a rough pre-order, the normal schemes only sort within symbols with the same occurance modifier. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --prec-skolem=2. --prec-defpred[=<arg>] Set a weight for introduced predicate symbols (usually via defini- tional CNF or clause splitting) to determine where to place it in the precedence. This value is used for a rough pre-order, the normal schemes only sort within symbols with the same occurance modifier. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --prec-defpred=2. -c <arg> --order-constant-weight=<arg> Set a special weight > 0 for constants in the term ordering. By de- fault, constants are treated like other function symbols. --precedence[=<arg>] Describe a (partial) precedence for the term ordering used for the proof attempt. You can specify a comma-separated list of precedence chains, where a precedence chain is a list of function symbols (which all have to appear in the proof problem), connected by >, <, or =. If this option is used in connection with --order-prece- dence-generation, the partial ordering will be completed using the selected method, otherwise the prover runs with a non-ground-total ordering. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --precedence=. --lpo-recursion-limit[=<arg>] Set a depth limit for LPO comparisons. Most comparisons do not need more than 10 or 20 levels of recursion. By default, recursion depth is limited to 1000 to avoid stack overflow problems. If the limit is reached, the prover assumes that the terms are uncomparable. Smaller values make the comparison attempts faster, but less exact. Larger values have the opposite effect. Values up to 20000 should be save on most operating systems. If you run into segmentation faults while using LPO or LPO4, first try to set this limit to a reasonable value. If the problem persists, send a bug report ;-) The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --lpo-recur- sion-limit=100. --restrict-literal-comparisons Make all literals uncomparable in the term ordering (i.e. do not use the term ordering to restrict paramodulation, equality resolution and factoring to certain literals. This is necessary to make Set-of-Support-strategies complete for the non-equational case (It still is incomplete for the equational case, but pretty useless any- ways). --literal-comparison=<arg> Modify how literal comparisons are done. 'None' is equivalent to the previous option, 'Normal' uses the normal lifting of the term order- ing, 'TFOEqMax' uses the equivalent of a transfinite ordering decid- ing on the predicate symbol and making equational literals maximal, and 'TFOEqMin' modifies this by making equational symbols minimal. --sos-uses-input-types If input is TPTP format, use TPTP conjectures for initializing the Set of Support. If not in TPTP format, use E-LOP queries (clauses of the form ?-l(X),...,m(Y)). Normally, all negative clauses are used. Please note that most E heuristics do not use this information at all, it is currently only useful for certain parameter settings (in- cluding the SimulateSOS priority function). --destructive-er Allow destructive equality resolution inferences on pure-variable literals of the form X!=Y, i.e. replace the original clause with the result of an equality resolution inference on this literal. --strong-destructive-er Allow destructive equality resolution inferences on literals of the form X!=t (where X does not occur in t), i.e. replace the original clause with the result of an equality resolution inference on this literal. Unless I am brain-dead, this maintains completeness, al- though the proof is rather tricky. --destructive-er-aggressive Apply destructive equality resolution to all newly generated clauses, not just to selected clauses. Implies --destructive-er. --forward-context-sr Apply contextual simplify-reflect with processed clauses to the given clause. --forward-context-sr-aggressive Apply contextual simplify-reflect with processed clauses to new clauses. Implies --forward-context-sr. --backward-context-sr Apply contextual simplify-reflect with the given clause to processed clauses. -g --prefer-general-demodulators Prefer general demodulators. By default, E prefers specialized de- modulators. This affects in which order the rewrite index is tra- versed. -F <arg> --forward-demod-level=<arg> Set the desired level for rewriting of unprocessed clauses. A value of 0 means no rewriting, 1 indicates to use rules (orientable equa- tions) only, 2 indicates full rewriting with rules and instances of unorientable equations. Default behavior is 2. --strong-rw-inst Instantiate unbound variables in matching potential demodulators with a small constant terms. -u --strong-forward-subsumption Try multiple positions and unit-equations to try to equationally subsume a single new clause. Default is to search for a single posi- tion. --satcheck-proc-interval[=<arg>] Enable periodic SAT checking at the given interval of main loop non-trivial processed clauses. The option without the optional argu- ment is equivalent to --satcheck-proc-interval=5000. --satcheck-gen-interval[=<arg>] Enable periodic SAT checking whenever the total proof state size in- creases by the given limit. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --satcheck-gen-interval=10000. --satcheck-ttinsert-interval[=<arg>] Enable periodic SAT checking whenever the number of term tops inser- tions matches the given limit (which grows exponentially). The op- tion without the optional argument is equivalent to --satcheck-ttin- sert-interval=5000000. --satcheck[=<arg>] Set the grounding strategy for periodic SAT checking. Note that to enable SAT checking, it is also necessary to set the interval with one of the previous two options. The option without the optional ar- gument is equivalent to --satcheck=FirstConst. --satcheck-decision-limit[=<arg>] Set the number of decisions allowed for each run of the SAT solver. If the option is not given, the built-in value is 10000. Use -1 to allow unlimited decision. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --satcheck-decision-limit=100. --satcheck-normalize-const Use the current normal form (as recorded in the termbank rewrite cache) of the selected constant as the term for the grounding sub- stitution. --satcheck-normalize-unproc Enable re-simplification (heuristic re-revaluation) of unprocessed clauses before grounding for SAT checking. --watchlist[=<arg>] Give the name for a file containing clauses to be watched for during the saturation process. If a clause is generated that subsumes a watchlist clause, the subsumed clause is removed from the watchlist. The prover will terminate when the watchlist is empty. If you want to use the watchlist for guiding the proof, put the empty clause onto the list and use the built-in clause selection heuristic 'Use- Watchlist' (or build a heuristic yourself using the priority func- tions 'PreferWatchlist' and 'DeferWatchlist'). Use the argument 'Use inline watchlist type' (or no argument) and the special clause type 'watchlist' if you want to put watchlist clauses into the normal in- put stream. This is only supported for TPTP input formats. The op- tion without the optional argument is equivalent to --watchlist='Use inline watchlist type'. --static-watchlist[=<arg>] This is identical to the previous option, but subsumed clauses will- not be removed from the watchlist (and hence the prover will not terminate if all watchlist clauses have been subsumed. This may be more useful for heuristic guidance. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --static-watchlist='Use inline watchlist type'. --no-watchlist-simplification By default, the watchlist is brought into normal form with respect to the current processed clause set and certain simplifications. This option disables simplification for the watchlist. --conventional-subsumption Equivalent to --subsumption-indexing=None. --subsumption-indexing=<arg> Determine choice of indexing for (most) subsumption operations. Choices are 'None' for naive subsumption, 'Direct' for direct mapped FV-Indexing, 'Perm' for permuted FV-Indexing and 'PermOpt' for per- muted FV-Indexing with deletion of (suspected) non-informative fea- tures. Default behaviour is 'Perm'. --fvindex-featuretypes=<arg> Select the feature types used for indexing. Choices are "None" to disable FV-indexing, "AC" for AC compatible features (the default) (literal number and symbol counts), "SS" for set subsumption compat- ible features (symbol depth), and "All" for all features.Unless you want to measure the effects of the different features, I suggest you stick with the default. --fvindex-maxfeatures[=<arg>] Set the maximum initial number of symbols for feature computation. Depending on the feature selection, a value of X here will convert into 2X+2 features (for set subsumption features), 2X+4 features (for AC-compatible features) or 4X+6 features (if all features are used, the default). Note that the actually used set of features may be smaller than this if the signature does not contain enough sym- bols.For the Perm and PermOpt version, this is _also_ used to set the maximum depth of the feature vector index. Yes, I should proba- bly make this into two separate options. If you select a small value here, you should probably not use "Direct" for the --subsumption-in- dexing option. The option without the optional argument is equiva- lent to --fvindex-maxfeatures=200. --fvindex-slack[=<arg>] Set the number of slots reserved in the index for function symbols that may be introduced into the signature later, e.g. by splitting. If no new symbols are introduced, this just wastes time and memory. If PermOpt is chosen, the slackness slots will be deleted from the index anyways, but will still waste (a little) time in computing feature vectors. The option without the optional argument is equiva- lent to --fvindex-slack=0. --rw-bw-index[=<arg>] Select fingerprint function for backwards rewrite index. "NoIndex" will disable paramodulation indexing. For a list of the other values run 'eprover --pm-index=none'. FPX functions will use a fingerprint of X positions, the letters disambiguate between different finger- prints with the same sample size. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --rw-bw-index=FP7. --pm-from-index[=<arg>] Select fingerprint function for the index for paramodulation from indexed clauses. "NoIndex" will disable paramodulation indexing. For a list of the other values run 'eprover --pm-index=none'. FPX func- tionswill use a fingerprint of X positions, the letters disambiguate between different fingerprints with the same sample size. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --pm-from-index=FP7. --pm-into-index[=<arg>] Select fingerprint function for the index for paramodulation into the indexed clauses. "NoIndex" will disable paramodulation indexing. For a list of the other values run 'eprover --pm-index=none'. FPX functionswill use a fingerprint of X positions, the letters disam- biguate between different fingerprints with the same sample size. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --pm-into-index=FP7. --fp-index[=<arg>] Select fingerprint function for all fingerprint indices. See above. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --fp-in- dex=FP7. --fp-no-size-constr Disable usage of size constraints for matching with fingerprint in- dexing. --pdt-no-size-constr Disable usage of size constraints for matching with perfect discrim- ination trees indexing. --pdt-no-age-constr Disable usage of age constraints for matching with perfect discrimi- nation trees indexing. --detsort-rw Sort set of clauses eliminated by backward rewriting using a total syntactic ordering. --detsort-new Sort set of newly generated and backward simplified clauses using a total syntactic ordering. -D <arg> --define-weight-function=<arg> Define a weight function (see manual for details). Later definitions override previous definitions. -H <arg> --define-heuristic=<arg> Define a clause selection heuristic (see manual for details). Later definitions override previous definitions. --free-numbers Treat numbers (strings of decimal digits) as normal free function symbols in the input. By default, number now are supposed to denote domain constants and to be implicitly different from each other. --free-objects Treat object identifiers (strings in double quotes) as normal free function symbols in the input. By default, object identifiers now represent domain objects and are implicitly different from each other (and from numbers, unless those are declared to be free). --definitional-cnf[=<arg>] Tune the clausification algorithm to introduces definitions for sub- formulae to avoid exponential blow-up. The optional argument is a fudge factor that determines when definitions are introduced. 0 dis- ables definitions completely. The default works well. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --defini- tional-cnf=24. --old-cnf[=<arg>] As the previous option, but use the classical, well-tested clausifi- cation algorithm as opposed to the newewst one which avoides some algorithmic pitfalls and hence works better on some exotic formulae. The two may produce slightly different (but equisatisfiable) clause normal forms. The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --old-cnf=24. --miniscope-limit[=<arg>] Set the limit of sub-formula-size to miniscope. The build-indefault is 256. Only applies to the new (default) clausification algorithm The option without the optional argument is equivalent to --minis- cope-limit=2147483648. --print-types Print the type of every term. Useful for debugging purposes. --app-encode Encodes terms in the proof state using applicative encoding, prints encoded input problem and exits. --arg-cong=<arg> Turns on ArgCong inference rule. Excepts an argument "all" or "max" that applies the rule to all or only literals that are eligible for resolution. --neg-ext=<arg> Turns on NegExt inference rule. Excepts an argument "all" or "max" that applies the rule to all or only literals that are eligible for resolution. --pos-ext=<arg> Turns on PosExt inference rule. Excepts an argument "all" or "max" that applies the rule to all or only literals that are eligible for resolution. --ext-sup-max-depth=<arg> Sets the maximal proof depth of the clause which will be considered for ExtSup inferences. Negative value disables the rule. --inverse-recognition Enables the recognition of injective function symbols. If such a symbol is recognized, existence of the inverse function is asserted by adding a corresponding axiom. --replace-inj-defs After CNF and before saturation, replaces all clauses that are defi- nitions of injectivity by axiomatization of inverse function. REPORTING BUGS Report bugs to <schulz@eprover.org>. Please include the following, if pos- sible: * The version of the package as reported by eprover --version. * The operating system and version. * The exact command line that leads to the unexpected behaviour. * A description of what you expected and what actually happend. * If possible all input files necessary to reproduce the bug. 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