Unification types and union splittings in intermediate logics
Abstract
Following a characterization [10] of locally tabular logics with finitary (or unitary) unification by their Kripke models we determine the unification types of some intermediate logics (extensions of {\sf INT}). There are exactly four maximal logics with nullary unification , , and and they are tabular. There are only two minimal logics with hereditary finitary unification: (), the least logic with hereditary unitary unification, and ( ) the least logic with hereditary projective approximation; they are locally tabular. Unitary and non-projective logics need additional variables for mgu's of some unifiable formulas, and unitary logics with projective approximation are exactly projective. None of locally tabular intermediate logics has infinitary unification. Logics with finitary, but not hereditary finitary, unification are rare and scattered among the majority of those with nullary unification, see the example of and its extensions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2205.10644,
title = {Unification types and union splittings in intermediate logics},
author = {W. Dzik and S. Kost and P. Wojtylak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.10644},
year = {2022}
}