Enhancement of properties in Mizar

Abstract

A “property” in the Mizar proof-assistant is a construction that can be used to register chosen features of predicates (e.g., “reflexivity”, “symmetry”), operations (e.g., “involutiveness”, “commutativity”) and types (e.g., “sethoodness”) declared at the definition stage. The current implementation of Mizar allows using properties for notions with a specific number of visible arguments (e.g., reflexivity for a predicate with two visible arguments and involutiveness for an operation with just one visible argument). In this paper we investigate a more general approach to overcome these limitations. We propose an extension of the Mizar language and a corresponding enhancement of the Mizar proof-checker which allow declaring properties of notions of arbitrary arity with respect to explicitly indicated arguments. Moreover, we introduce a new property—the “fixedpoint-free” property of unary operations—meaning that the result of applying the operation to its argument always differs from the argument. Results of tests conducted on the Mizar Mathematical Library are presented.