Hard Provability Logics
Logic
2019-11-12 v1
Abstract
Let PL(T,T′) and PLΣ1(T,T′) respectively indicates the provability logic and Σ1-provability logic of T relative in T′. In this paper we characterize the following relative provability logics: PLΣ1(HA,N), PLΣ1(HA,PA), PLΣ1(HA∗,N), PLΣ1(HA∗,PA), PL(PA,HA), PLΣ1(PA,HA), PL(PA∗,HA), PLΣ1(PA∗,HA), PL(PA∗,PA), PLΣ1(PA∗,PA), PL(PA∗,N), PLΣ1(PA∗,N) (see Table \ref{Table-Theories}). It turns out that all of these provability logics are decidable. The notion of {\em reduction} for provability logics, first informally considered in \cite{reduction}. In this paper, we formalize a generalization of this notion (\Cref{Definition-Reduction-PL}) and provide several reductions of provability logics (See diagram \ref{Diagram-full}). The interesting fact is that PLΣ1(HA,N) is the hardest provability logic: the arithmetical completenesses of all provability logics listed above, as well as well-known provability logics like PL(PA,PA), PL(PA,N), PLΣ1(PA,PA), PLΣ1(PA,N) and PLΣ1(HA,HA) are all propositionally reducible to the arithmetical completeness of PLΣ1(HA,N).
Cite
@article{arxiv.1911.04284,
title = {Hard Provability Logics},
author = {Mojtaba Mojtahedi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04284},
year = {2019}
}