English

Uniform Lyndon Interpolation for Basic Non-normal Modal and Conditional Logics

Logic 2022-08-11 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

In this paper, a proof-theoretic method to prove uniform Lyndon interpolation for non-normal modal and conditional logics is introduced and applied to show that the logics E\mathsf{E}, M\mathsf{M}, EN\mathsf{EN}, MN\mathsf{MN}, MC\mathsf{MC}, K\mathsf{K}, and their conditional versions, CE\mathsf{CE}, CM\mathsf{CM}, CEN\mathsf{CEN}, CMN\mathsf{CMN}, CMC\mathsf{CMC}, CK\mathsf{CK}, in addition to CKID\mathsf{CKID} have that property. In particular, it implies that these logics have uniform interpolation. Although for some of them the latter is known, the fact that they have uniform Lyndon interpolation is new. Also, the proof-theoretic proofs of these facts are new, as well as the constructive way to explicitly compute the interpolants that they provide. On the negative side, it is shown that the logics CKCEM\mathsf{CKCEM} and CKCEMID\mathsf{CKCEMID} enjoy uniform interpolation but not uniform Lyndon interpolation. Moreover, it is proved that the non-normal modal logics EC\mathsf{EC} and ECN\mathsf{ECN} and their conditional versions, CEC\mathsf{CEC} and CECN\mathsf{CECN}, do not have Craig interpolation, and whence no uniform (Lyndon) interpolation.

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@article{arxiv.2208.05202,
  title  = {Uniform Lyndon Interpolation for Basic Non-normal Modal and Conditional Logics},
  author = {Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai and Rosalie Iemhoff and Raheleh Jalali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.05202},
  year   = {2022}
}
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