Christoph Lüth, David Aspinall: PGIP as a prover-independent proof language

The Proof General Kit is a software framework for conducting interactive proof. It defines a component infrastructure, the syntax of messages exchanged between components, and the protocol governing message exchanges dubbed Proof General Interaction Protocol. The infrastructure connects provers to one or more display components for interacting with the user, via a broker middleware component. In this setting, the central broker handles an abstract representation of the proof script, by breaking up the concrete proof script into constituting parts each of which correcponds to a transitition in the abstract state model of the prover, which underlies PGIP. In other words, we can view the proof script as a prover-independent proof language and consider script and dependency management on this abstract level.
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