We formally verify several computational reductions concerning the Post
correspondence problem (PCP) using the proof assistant Coq. Our verifications
include a reduction of a string rewriting problem generalising the halting
problem for Turing machines to PCP, and reductions of PCP to the intersection
problem and the palindrome problem for context-free grammars. Interestingly,
rigorous correctness proofs for some of the reductions are missing in the
literature