A System of Interaction and Structure V: The Exponentials and Splitting

International audienceSystem NEL is the mixed commutative/non-commutative linear logic BV augmented with linear logic's exponentials, or, equivalently, it is MELL augmented with the non-commutative self-dual connective seq. System NEL is Turing-complete, it is able to directly express process algebra sequential composition and it faithfully models causal quantum evolution. In this paper, we show cut elimination for NEL, based on a property that we call splitting. NEL is presented in the calculus of structures, which is a deep-inference formalism, because no Gentzen formalism can express it analytically. The splitting theorem shows how and to what extent we can recover a sequent-like structure in NEL proofs. Together with the decomposition theorem, proved in the previous paper of the series, this immediately leads to a cut-elimination theorem for NEL