Action Logic is Undecidable
Logic in Computer Science
2019-12-25 v1 Logic
Abstract
Action logic is the algebraic logic (inequational theory) of residuated Kleene lattices. This logic involves Kleene star, axiomatized by an induction scheme. For a stronger system which uses an -rule instead (infinitary action logic) Buszkowski and Palka (2007) have proved -completeness (thus, undecidability). Decidability of action logic itself was an open question, raised by D. Kozen in 1994. In this article, we show that it is undecidable, more precisely, -complete. We also prove the same complexity results for all recursively enumerable logics between action logic and infinitary action logic; for fragments of those only one of the two lattice (additive) connectives; for action logic extended with the law of distributivity.
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@article{arxiv.1912.11273,
title = {Action Logic is Undecidable},
author = {Stepan Kuznetsov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.11273},
year = {2019}
}
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