English

Craig Interpolation for Guarded Fragments

Logic in Computer Science 2023-04-18 v1

Abstract

We show that the guarded-negation fragment (GNFO) is, in a precise sense, the smallest extension of the guarded fragment (GFO) with Craig interpolation. In contrast, %we show that the smallest extension of the two-variable fragment (FO2) with Craig interpolation is full first-order logic.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2304.08086,
  title  = {Craig Interpolation for Guarded Fragments},
  author = {Balder ten Cate and Jesse Comer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.08086},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted for presentation at DPFO 2023 workshop

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