Stream: Beginner Questions

Topic: termination proof on measure


view this post on Zulip Salvatore Francesco Rossetta (Feb 02 2024 at 17:12):

Hi, I wrote this for termination of this function

function loop_divisor_outer ::
  "('a::linorder, 'b) Divisor_Module ⇒ ('a::linorder, 'b) Divisor_Module"
  where
  "ns r = 0 ⟹ loop_divisor_outer r = defer_divisor r" |
  "ns r > 0 ⟹ loop_divisor_outer r = loop_divisor_outer (main_function r)"
  by auto

termination
proof (relation "measure (λr. ns r)", goal_cases)
  case (1)
  then show ?case by simp
next
  case (2 r)
  assume "p r ≠ []"
  then have "ns (main_function r) < ns (r)"
  using nseats_decreasing_main_function "2" by blast
  then show ?case by simp
qed

Where lemma "nseats_decreasing_main_function" proves that "ns (main_function r) < ns r". Here:

fun main_function :: "('a::linorder, 'b) Divisor_Module ⇒
   ('a::linorder, 'b) Divisor_Module" where
"main_function rec =
      assigning_seats (rec⦇p := ( find_max_votes (fv rec) (p rec))⦈)"

lemma nseats_decreasing_main:
  assumes non_empty_parties: "p rec ≠ []"
  assumes n_positive: "ns rec > 0"
  shows "ns (assigning_seats rec) < ns rec"
proof (cases "length (p rec) ≤ ns rec")
  case True
  then have "ns (assigning_seats rec) = ns rec - length (p rec)"
    by (auto simp add: Let_def)
  also have "... < ns rec" using True n_positive non_empty_parties
    by simp
  finally show ?thesis .
next
  case False
  then have "ns (assigning_seats rec) = 0"
    by (auto simp add: Let_def)
  also have "... < ns rec" using n_positive
    by simp
  finally show ?thesis .
qed

lemma nseats_decreasing_main_function:
  assumes non_empty_parties: "p rec ≠ []"
  assumes n_positive: "ns rec > 0"
  shows "ns (main_function rec) < ns rec"
proof -
  have "main_function rec = assigning_seats (rec⦇p := find_max_votes (fv rec) (p rec)⦈)"
    by simp
  also have "ns ( assigning_seats (rec⦇p := find_max_votes (fv rec) (p rec)⦈)) < ns rec" using non_empty_parties n_positive
    by (simp add: Let_def)
  finally show ?thesis
    using assms nseats_decreasing_main nseats_decreasing by auto
qed

But on the first termination proof, after "show", I get this

picking this:
  ns (main_function r) < ns r
Failed to refine any pending goal
Local statement fails to refine any pending goal
Failed attempt to solve goal by exported rule:
  (0 < ns ?r2)  (p ?r2  [])  (main_function ?r2, ?r2)  measure ns

if it is picking my lemma how can it not proof the thesis? maybe mistake is on variables because of that "r2" but I don't know exactly how to fix. Or maybe the above lemmas are not correct somehow? Thanks in advance

view this post on Zulip Lukas Stevens (Feb 05 2024 at 15:48):

Maybe you need show ?thesis instead of show ?case?

view this post on Zulip Salvatore Francesco Rossetta (Feb 05 2024 at 16:10):

Lukas Stevens said:

Maybe you need show ?thesis instead of show ?case?

if i change it i get this error, i think because from a case i cannot prove the full thesis

proof (chain)
picking this:
  ns (main_function r) < ns r
Failed to refine any pending goal
Local statement fails to refine any pending goal
Failed attempt to solve goal by exported rule:
  (0 < ns ?r2)  (p ?r2  [])  (0 < ns ?r2)  All loop_divisor_outer_dom

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (Feb 05 2024 at 16:25):

Never put an assume if you have a case

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (Feb 05 2024 at 16:25):

Never

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (Feb 05 2024 at 16:26):

(yes it sometimes work. In the best case it is useless but bad taste. In the worst case, it leads to an error like here)

view this post on Zulip Salvatore Francesco Rossetta (Feb 05 2024 at 17:03):

Mathias Fleury said:

Never put an assume if you have a case

So how should I proceed? Because if I remove assms the error I get is about "simp" unrolling all the functions inside while I am looking for something "simpler", because looking back at my code it seems the last step is enough to prove the thesis

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (Feb 05 2024 at 17:09):

I don't know. But you cannot add assumptions out of thin air. This is not how proof work.

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (Feb 05 2024 at 17:10):

Otherwise just assume False and every proof will be trivial

view this post on Zulip Mathias Fleury (Feb 05 2024 at 17:10):

or do a case distinction whether the list is empty or not


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