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Intuitionistic G\"odel-L\"ob logic, \`a la Simpson: labelled systems and birelational semantics

Logic in Computer Science 2023-09-04 v1 Logic

Abstract

We derive an intuitionistic version of G\"odel-L\"ob modal logic (GL\sf{GL}) in the style of Simpson, via proof theoretic techniques. We recover a labelled system, IGL\sf{\ell IGL}, by restricting a non-wellfounded labelled system for GL\sf{GL} to have only one formula on the right. The latter is obtained using techniques from cyclic proof theory, sidestepping the barrier that GL\sf{GL}'s usual frame condition (converse well-foundedness) is not first-order definable. While existing intuitionistic versions of GL\sf{GL} are typically defined over only the box (and not the diamond), our presentation includes both modalities. Our main result is that IGL\sf{\ell IGL} coincides with a corresponding semantic condition in birelational semantics: the composition of the modal relation and the intuitionistic relation is conversely well-founded. We call the resulting logic IGL\sf{IGL}. While the soundness direction is proved using standard ideas, the completeness direction is more complex and necessitates a detour through several intermediate characterisations of IGL\sf{IGL}.

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@article{arxiv.2309.00532,
  title  = {Intuitionistic G\"odel-L\"ob logic, \`a la Simpson: labelled systems and birelational semantics},
  author = {Anupam Das and Iris van der Giessen and Sonia Marin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00532},
  year   = {2023}
}

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25 pages including 8 pages appendix, 4 figures