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Undecidable problems for propositional calculi with implication

Logic 2016-04-15 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

In this article, we deal with propositional calculi over a signature containing the classical implication \to with the rules of modus ponens and substitution. For these calculi we consider few recognizing problems such as recognizing derivations, extensions, completeness, and axiomatizations. The main result of this paper is to prove that the problem of recognizing extensions is undecidable for every propositional calculus, and the problems of recognizing axiomatizations and completeness are undecidable for propositional calculi containing the formula x(yx)x \to ( y \to x ). As a corollary, the problem of derivability of a fixed formula AA is also undecidable for all AA. Moreover, we give a historical survey of related results.

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@article{arxiv.1502.00978,
  title  = {Undecidable problems for propositional calculi with implication},
  author = {Grigoriy V. Bokov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.00978},
  year   = {2016}
}

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18 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.7010

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