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We present a labelled and non-wellfounded calculus for the bimodal provability logic CS. The system is obtained by modelling the Kripke-like semantics of this logic. As in arXiv:2309.00532, we enforce the second-order property of converse…

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In much discussed work Artemov has recently shown that, for $\mathrm{PA}$, the consistency schema admits a form of uniform verification via selector proofs, despite the unprovability of the corresponding uniform consistency sentence…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Harald Grobner

We give an elementary proof of the Gel'fand-Kapranov-Zelevinsky theorem that non-resonant A-hypergeometric systems are irreducible. We also provide a proof of a converse statement In this second version we have removed the condition of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-09-02 F. Beukers

We prove an algebraic canonicity theorem for normal LE-logics of arbitrary signature, in a generalized setting in which the non-lattice connectives are interpreted as operations mapping tuples of elements of the given lattice to closed or…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Laurent De Rudder , Alessandra Palmigiano

We show, assuming PD, that every complete finitely axiomatized second order theory with a countable model is categorical, but that there is, assuming again PD, a complete recursively axiomatized second order theory with a countable model…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Tapio Saarinen , Jouko Väänänen , William Hugh Woodin

The paper investigates from a proof-theoretic perspective various non-contractive logical systems circumventing logical and semantic paradoxes. Until recently, such systems only displayed additive quantifiers (Gri\v{s}in, Cantini). Systems…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Carlo Nicolai , Mario Piazza , Matteo Tesi

The "fundamental theorem of Vassiliev invariants" says that every weight system can be integrated to a knot invariant. We discuss four different approaches to the proof of this theorem: a topological/combinatorial approach following M.…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Dror Bar-Natan , Alexander Stoimenow

Reynolds' parametricity originally equips types with proof-irrelevant binary propositional relations over the types. But such relations can also be taken proof-relevant or unary, and described either in an indexed or fibred way.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Hugo Herbelin , Ramkumar Ramachandra

Cubical type theory provides a constructive justification to certain aspects of homotopy type theory such as Voevodsky's univalence axiom. This makes many extensionality principles, like function and propositional extensionality, directly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Thierry Coquand , Simon Huber , Anders Mörtberg

Intuitionistic logic extended with decidable propositional atoms combines classical properties in its propositional part and intuitionistic properties for derivable formulas not containing propositional symbols. Sequent calculus is used as…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Sakharov

A theory of recursive definitions has been mechanized in Isabelle's Zermelo-Fraenkel (ZF) set theory. The objective is to support the formalization of particular recursive definitions for use in verification, semantics proofs and other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Lawrence C. Paulson

Existing methods for quantifying predictive uncertainty in neural networks are either computationally intractable for large language models or require access to training data that is typically unavailable. We derive a lightweight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nils Grünefeld , Jes Frellsen , Christian Hardmeier

Motivated by a recent conjecture concerning the expressiveness of declarative networking, we propose a formal computation model for "eventually consistent" distributed querying, based on relational transducers. A tight link has been…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-06-29 Tom Ameloot , Frank Neven , Jan Van den Bussche

We introduce extension-based proofs, a class of impossibility proofs that includes valency arguments. They are modelled as an interaction between a prover and a protocol. Using proofs based on combinatorial topology, it has been shown that…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Dan Alistarh , James Aspnes , Faith Ellen , Rati Gelashvili , Leqi Zhu

We show pro-definability of spaces of definable types in various classical complete first order theories, including complete o-minimal theories, Presburger arithmetic, $p$-adically closed fields, real closed and algebraically closed valued…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-08-09 Pablo Cubides Kovacsics , Jinhe Ye

This paper develops a proof-theoretic framework for abstract interpretation by systematically associating logical systems with finite abstractions. Building on earlier work on the internal logics of abstractions, we propose a general…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Vijay D'Silva , Alessandra Palmigiano , Apostolos Tzimoulis , Caterina Urban

Inductive and coinductive types are commonly construed as ontological (Church-style) types, denoting canonical data-sets such as natural numbers, lists, and streams. For various purposes, notably the study of programs in the context of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Daniel M Leivant

This work applies the ideas of Alekseev and Meinrenken's Non-commutative Chern-Weil Theory to describe a completely combinatorial and constructive proof of the Wheeling Theorem. In this theory, the crux of the proof is, essentially, the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Andrew Kricker

Existing tools for explaining complex models and systems are associational rather than causal and do not provide mechanistic understanding. We propose a new notion called counterfactual explainability for causal attribution that is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-07 Zijun Gao , Qingyuan Zhao

We show the functional completeness for the connectives of the non-trivial negation inconsistent logic C by using a well-established method implementing purely proof-theoretic notions only. Firstly, given that C contains a strong negation,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Sara Ayhan , Hrafn Valtýr Oddsson