Unifiability and Structural Completeness in Relation Algebras and in Products of Modal Logic S5

Unifiability of terms (and formulas) and structural completeness in the variety of relation algebras RA and in the products of modal logic S5 is investigated. Nonunifiable terms (formulas) which are satisfiable in varieties (in logics) are exhibited. Consequently, RA and products of S5 as well as representable diagonal-free n-dimensional cylindric algebras, RDfn, are almost structurally complete but not structurally complete. In case of S5ⁿ a basis for admissible rules and the form of all passive rules are provided

Preserving Filtering Unification by Adding Compatible Operations to Some Heyting Algebras

We show that adding compatible operations to Heyting algebras and to commutative residuated lattices, both satisfying the Stone law ¬x ⋁ ¬¬x = 1, preserves filtering (or directed) unification, that is, the property that for every two unifiers there is a unifier more general then both of them. Contrary to that, often adding new operations to algebras results in changing the unification type. To prove the results we apply the theorems of [9] on direct products of l-algebras and filtering unification. We consider examples of frontal Heyting algebras, in particular Heyting algebras with the successor, and G operations as well as expansions of some commutative integral residuated lattices with successor operations

Almost structural completeness; an algebraic approach

A deductive system is structurally complete if its admissible inference rules are derivable. For several important systems, like modal logic S5, failure of structural completeness is caused only by the underivability of passive rules, i.e. rules that can not be applied to theorems of the system. Neglecting passive rules leads to the notion of almost structural completeness, that means, derivablity of admissible non-passive rules. Almost structural completeness for quasivarieties and varieties of general algebras is investigated here by purely algebraic means. The results apply to all algebraizable deductive systems. Firstly, various characterizations of almost structurally complete quasivarieties are presented. Two of them are general: expressed with finitely presented algebras, and with subdirectly irreducible algebras. One is restricted to quasivarieties with finite model property and equationally definable principal relative congruences, where the condition is verifiable on finite subdirectly irreducible algebras. Secondly, examples of almost structurally complete varieties are provided Particular emphasis is put on varieties of closure algebras, that are known to constitute adequate semantics for normal extensions of S4 modal logic. A certain infinite family of such almost structurally complete, but not structurally complete, varieties is constructed. Every variety from this family has a finitely presented unifiable algebra which does not embed into any free algebra for this variety. Hence unification in it is not unitary. This shows that almost structural completeness is strictly weaker than projective unification for varieties of closure algebras

Intuitionistic logic with a Galois connection has the finite model property

We show that the intuitionistic propositional logic with a Galois connection (IntGC), introduced by the authors, has the finite model property.Comment: 6 page

Closure algebras of depth two with extremal relations: Their frames, logics, and structural completeness

We consider varieties generated by finite closure algebras whose canonical relations have two levels, and whose restriction to a level is an "extremal" relation, i.e. the identity or the universal relation. The corresponding logics have frames of depth two, in which a level consists of a set of simple clusters or of one cluster with one or more elements

Remarks on projective unifiers

A projective unifier for a unifiable formula a in a logic L is a unifier a for a (i.e. a substitution making a a theorem of L) such that a —L a(x) o x. Using the result of Burris [3] we observe that every discriminator variety has projective unifiers. Several examples of projective unifiers both in discriminator and in non-discriminator varieties are given. As an application we show that logics with projective unifiers are almost structurally complete, i.e. every admissible rule with unifiable premises is derivable

Unitary unification of S5 modal logic and its extensions

It is shown that all extensions of S5 modal logic, both in the standard formalization and in the formalization with strict implication, as well as all varieties of monadic algebras have unitary unification