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We consider a simple modal logic whose non-modal part has conjunction and disjunction as connectives and whose modalities come in adjoint pairs, but are not in general closure operators. Despite absence of negation and implication, and of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-03-23 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Roy Dyckhoff

Cut-elimination theorems constitute one of the most important classes of theorems of proof theory. Since Gentzen's proof of the cut-elimination theorem for the system $\mathbf{LK}$, several other proofs have been proposed. Even though the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Sayantan Roy

We provide a complete classification of solvable instances of the equational unification problem over De Morgan and Kleene algebras with respect to unification type. The key tool is a combinatorial characterization of finitely generated…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Simone Bova , Leonardo Cabrer

We give an exposition of the semantics of the simply-typed lambda-calculus, and its linear and ordered variants, using multi-ary structures. We define universal properties for multicategories, and use these to derive familiar rules for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Philip Saville

Kleene algebras (KA) and Kleene algebras with tests (KAT) provide an algebraic framework to capture the behavior of conventional programming constructs. This paper explores a broader understanding of these structures, in order to enable the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Juliana Cunha , Alexandre Madeira , Luís S. Barbosa

We present new descriptive complexity characterisations of classes REG (regular languages), LCFL (linear context-free languages) and CFL (context-free languages) as restrictions on inference rules, size of formulae and permitted connectives…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Yusaku Nishimiya , Masaya Taniguchi

We introduce partially observable concurrent Kleene algebra (POCKA), an algebraic framework to reason about concurrent programs with control structures, such as conditionals and loops. POCKA enables reasoning about programs that can access…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jana Wagemaker , Paul Brunet , Simon Docherty , Tobias Kappé , Jurriaan Rot , Alexandra Silva

Proving proof-size lower bounds for $\mathbf{LK}$, the sequent calculus for classical propositional logic, remains a major open problem in proof complexity. We shed new light on this challenge by isolating the power of structural rules,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai , Raheleh Jalali

Subexponential logic is a variant of linear logic with a family of exponential connectives--called subexponentials--that are indexed and arranged in a pre-order. Each subexponential has or lacks associated structural properties of weakening…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Kaustuv Chaudhuri

Ordered logics and type systems have been used in a variety of applications including computational linguistics, memory allocation, stream processing, logical frameworks, parametricity, and enforcing security protocols. In most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Sophia Roshal , Frank Pfenning

We investigate the equational theory for Kleene algebra terms with variable complements and constant complements -- (language) complement where it applies only to variables or constants -- w.r.t. languages. While the equational theory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yoshiki Nakamura , Ryoma Sin'ya

The use of exponentials in linear logic greatly enhances its expressive power. In this paper we focus on nonassociative noncommutative multiplicative linear logic, and systematically explore modal axioms K, T, and 4 as well as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Eben Blaisdell

Kleene algebra with tests (KAT) is an equational system for program verification, which is the combination of Boolean algebra (BA) and Kleene algebra (KA), the algebra of regular expressions. In particular, KAT subsumes the propositional…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Ricardo Almeida , Sabine Broda , Nelma Moreira

Kleene algebras with tests (KATs) offer sound, complete, and decidable equational reasoning about regularly structured programs. Interest in KATs has increased greatly since NetKAT demonstrated how well extensions of KATs with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Michael Greenberg , Ryan Beckett , Eric Campbell

We investigate the computational properties of basic mathematical notions pertaining to $\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$-functions and subsets of $\mathbb{R}$, like finiteness, countability, (absolute) continuity, bounded variation,…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Dag Normann , Sam Sanders

We study Polynomial Lawvere logic PL, a logic defined over the Lawvere quantale of extended positive reals with sum as tensor, to which we add multiplication, thereby obtaining a semiring structure. PL is designed for complex quantitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Giorgio Bacci , Radu Mardare , Prakash Panangaden , Gordon Plotkin

We introduce proper display calculi for basic monotonic modal logic, the conditional logic CK and a number of their axiomatic extensions. These calculi are sound, complete, conservative and enjoy cut elimination and subformula property. Our…

Synchronous Kleene algebra (SKA), an extension of Kleene algebra (KA), was proposed by Prisacariu as a tool for reasoning about programs that may execute synchronously, i.e., in lock-step. We provide a countermodel witnessing that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Jana Wagemaker , Marcello Bonsangue , Tobias Kappé , Jurriaan Rot , Alexandra Silva

This paper is devoted to the investigation of term-definable connexive implications in substructural logics with exchange and, on the semantical perspective, in sub-varieties of commutative residuated lattices (FLe-algebras). In particular,…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Davide Fazio , Gavin St. John

We develop a Gentzen-style proof theory for super-Belnap logics (extensions of the four-valued Dunn-Belnap logic), expanding on an approach initiated by Pynko. We show that just like substructural logics may be understood…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Adam Prenosil