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In this article, a model-theoretic approach is proposed to prove that the first-order G\"odel logic, $\mathbf{G}$, as well as its extension $\mathbf{G}^\Delta$ associated with first-order relational languages enjoy the Craig interpolation…

The Craig interpolation property (CIP) states that an interpolant for an implication exists iff it is valid. The projective Beth definability property (PBDP) states that an explicit definition exists iff a formula stating implicit…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Alessandro Artale , Jean Christoph Jung , Andrea Mazzullo , Ana Ozaki , Frank Wolter

None of the first-order modal logics between $\mathsf{K}$ and $\mathsf{S5}$ under the constant domain semantics enjoys Craig interpolation or projective Beth definability, even in the language restricted to a single individual variable. It…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Agi Kurucz , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

We show that Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL) has the Craig Interpolation Property. This question has been open for many years. Three proof attempts were published, but later criticized in the literature or retracted. Our proof is based on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Manfred Borzechowski , Malvin Gattinger , Helle Hvid Hansen , Revantha Ramanayake , Valentina Trucco Dalmas , Yde Venema

This chapter surveys some of the main results on interpolation in several of the most prominent families of non-classical logics. Special attention is given to the distinction between the two most commonly studied variants of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Wesley Fussner

In this chapter we give a basic overview of known results regarding Craig interpolation for first-order logic as well as for fragments of first-order logic. Our aim is to provide an entry point into the literature on interpolation theorems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Balder ten Cate , Jesse Comer

Craig interpolation and uniform interpolation have many applications in knowledge representation, including explainability, forgetting, modularization and reuse, and even learning. At the same time, many relevant knowledge representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jean Christoph Jung , Patrick Koopmann , Matthias Knorr

This paper is a historical tour of occurrences of the Craig interpolation theorem and the Beth definability theorem in philosophy since the 1950s. We identify the notion of dependence as one major red thread behind these, and include some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Johan van Benthem

We have recently presented a general method of proving the fundamental logical properties of Craig and Lyndon Interpolation (IPs) by induction on derivations in a wide class of internal sequent calculi, including sequents, hypersequents,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Roman Kuznets

We study the fixed point property and the Craig interpolation property for sublogics of the interpretability logic $\mathbf{IL}$. We provide a complete description of these sublogics concerning the uniqueness of fixed points, the fixed…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Sohei Iwata , Taishi Kurahashi , Yuya Okawa

We consider the family of guarded and unguarded ordered logics, that constitute a recently rediscovered family of decidable fragments of first-order logic (FO), in which the order of quantification of variables coincides with the order in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Reijo Jaakkola

We show that a vast class of finitary fragments of geometric logic admit a form of Craig interpolation property. In doing so, we provide a new dictionary to import technology from algebraic logic to categorical logic.

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Ivan Di Liberti , Lingyuan Ye

Uniform interpolation is a strengthening of interpolation that holds for certain propositional logics. The starting point of this chapter is a theorem of A. Pitts, which shows that uniform interpolation holds for intuitionistic…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Sam van Gool

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of proof-theoretic methods for establishing interpolation properties across a range of logics, including classical, intuitionistic, modal, and substructural logics. Central to the discussion…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Iris van der Giessen , Raheleh Jalali , Roman Kuznets

We try to bring to light some combinatorial structure underlying formal proofs in logic. We do this through the study of the Craig Interpolation Theorem which is properly a statement about the structure of formal derivations. We show that…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Alessandra Carbone

Pitts' proof-theoretic technique for uniform interpolation, which generates uniform interpolants from terminating sequent calculi, has only been applied to logics on an intuitionistic basis through single-succedent sequent calculi. We adapt…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hugo Férée , Ian Shillito

It is well known that the completeness theorem for $\mathrm{L}_{\omega_1\omega}$ fails with respect to Tarski semantics. Mansfield showed that it holds for $\mathrm{L}_{\infty\infty}$ if one replaces Tarski semantics with boolean valued…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Juan M. Santiago , Matteo Viale

We focus on the persistence principle over weak interpretability logic. Our object of study is the logic obtained by adding the persistence principle to weak interpretability logic from several perspectives. Firstly, we prove that this…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Sohei Iwata , Taishi Kurahashi , Yuya Okawa

We show that the vast majority of extensions of the description logic $\mathcal{EL}$ do not enjoy the Craig interpolation nor the projective Beth definability property. This is the case, for example, for $\mathcal{EL}$ with nominals,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Marie Fortin , Boris Konev , Frank Wolter

The notion of Craig interpolant, used as a form of explanation in automated reasoning, is adapted from logical inference to statistical inference and used to explain inferences made by neural networks. The method produces explanations that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kenneth L. McMillan