140 research outputs found
Positive Logic with Adjoint Modalities: Proof Theory, Semantics and Reasoning about Information
We consider a simple modal logic whose non-modal part has conjunction and
disjunction as connectives and whose modalities come in adjoint pairs, but are
not in general closure operators. Despite absence of negation and implication,
and of axioms corresponding to the characteristic axioms of (e.g.) T, S4 and
S5, such logics are useful, as shown in previous work by Baltag, Coecke and the
first author, for encoding and reasoning about information and misinformation
in multi-agent systems. For such a logic we present an algebraic semantics,
using lattices with agent-indexed families of adjoint pairs of operators, and a
cut-free sequent calculus. The calculus exploits operators on sequents, in the
style of "nested" or "tree-sequent" calculi; cut-admissibility is shown by
constructive syntactic methods. The applicability of the logic is illustrated
by reasoning about the muddy children puzzle, for which the calculus is
augmented with extra rules to express the facts of the muddy children scenario.Comment: This paper is the full version of the article that is to appear in
the ENTCS proceedings of the 25th conference on the Mathematical Foundations
of Programming Semantics (MFPS), April 2009, University of Oxfor
Syntactic Interpolation for Tense Logics and Bi-Intuitionistic Logic via Nested Sequents
We provide a direct method for proving Craig interpolation for a range of modal and intuitionistic logics, including those containing a "converse" modality. We demonstrate this method for classical tense logic, its extensions with path axioms, and for bi-intuitionistic logic. These logics do not have straightforward formalisations in the traditional Gentzen-style sequent calculus, but have all been shown to have cut-free nested sequent calculi. The proof of the interpolation theorem uses these calculi and is purely syntactic, without resorting to embeddings, semantic arguments, or interpreted connectives external to the underlying logical language. A novel feature of our proof includes an orthogonality condition for defining duality between interpolants
Tense distributive lattices: algebra, logic and topology
Tense logic was introduced by Arthur Prior in the late 1950s as a result of
his interest in the relationship between tense and modality. Prior's idea was
to add four primitive modal-like unary connectives to the base language today
widely known as Prior's tense operators. Since then, Prior's operators have
been considered in many contexts by different authors, in particular, in the
context of algebraic logic.
Here, we consider the category tdlat of bounded distributive lattices
equipped with Prior's tense operators. We establish categorical dualities for
tdlat in terms of certain categories of Kripke frames and Priestley spaces,
respectively. As an application, we characterize the congruence lattice of any
tense distributive lattice as well as the subdirectly irreducible members of
this category. Finally, we define the logic that preserves degrees of truth
with respect to tdlat-algebras and precise the relation between particular
sub-classes of tdlat and know tense logics found in the literature
Proof search and counter-model construction for bi-intuitionistic propositional logic with labelled sequents
Bi-intuitionistic logic is a conservative extension of
intuitionistic logic with a connective dual to implication, called
exclusion. We present a sound and complete cut-free labelled sequent
calculus for bi-intuitionistic propositional logic, BiInt,
following S. Negri's general method for devising sequent calculi
for normal modal logics. Although it arises as a natural
formalization of the Kripke semantics, it is does not directly
support proof search. To describe a proof search procedure, we
develop a more algorithmic version that also allows for
counter-model extraction from a failed proof attempt.Estonian Science Foundation - grants no. 5567; 6940Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)RESCUE - no. PTDC/EIA/65862/2006TYPES - FP6 ISTCentro de matemática da Universidade do Minh
A Hybrid Linear Logic for Constrained Transition Systems
Linear implication can represent state transitions, but real transition systems operate under temporal, stochastic or probabilistic constraints that are not directly representable in ordinary linear logic. We propose a general modal extension of intuitionistic linear logic where logical truth is indexed by constraints and hybrid connectives combine constraint reasoning with logical reasoning. The logic has a focused cut-free sequent calculus that can be used to internalize the rules of particular constrained transition systems; we illustrate this with an adequate encoding of the synchronous stochastic pi-calculus
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