title: A phytography of WALDMEISTER
abstract: The architecture of the WALDMEISTER prover for unit equational deduction is based on a strict separation of active and passive facts. After an inspection of the system's proof procedure, the representation of each of the central data structures is outlined, namely indexing for the active facts, compression for the passive facts, successor sets for the hypotheses, and minimal recording of inference steps for the proof object. In order to cope with large search spaces, specialized redundancy criteria are employed, and the empirically gained control knowledge is integrated to ease the use of the system. The paper concludes with a quantitative comparison of the WALDMEISTER versions over the years, and a view of the future prospects
keyphrases: phytography WALDMEISTER unit equational deduction passive facts data structures indexing active facts hypotheses inference large search spaces redundancy future prospects theorem prover CADE ATP System Competition