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We prove a generalization of Maehara's lemma to show that the extensions of classical and intuitionistic first-order logic with a special type of geometric axioms, called singular geometric axioms, have Craig's interpolation property. As a…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Guido Gherardi , Paolo Maffezioli , Eugenio Orlandelli

Traditionally, research on Craig interpolation is concerned with (a) establishing the Craig interpolation property (CIP) of a logic saying that every valid implication in the logic has a Craig interpolant and (b) designing algorithms that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Agi Kurucz , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

This paper considers the problem of assumptions refinement in the context of unrealizable specifications for reactive systems. We propose a new counterstrategy-guided synthesis approach for GR(1) specifications based on Craig's…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Davide G. Cavezza , Dalal Alrajeh

Craig interpolation is a widespread method in verification, with important applications such as Predicate Abstraction, CounterExample Guided Abstraction Refinement and Lazy Abstraction With Interpolants. Most state-of-the-art model checking…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Arie Gurfinkel , Simone Fulvio Rollini , Natasha Sharygina

Craig's interpolation theorem (Craig 1957) is an important theorem known for propositional logic and first-order logic. It says that if a logical formula $\beta$ logically follows from a formula $\alpha$, then there is a formula $\gamma$,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Eyal Amir

Theory interpolation has found several successful applications in model checking. We present a novel method for computing interpolants for ground formulas in the theory of equality. The method produces interpolants from colored congruence…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alexander Fuchs , Amit Goel , Jim Grundy , Sava Krstić , Cesare Tinelli

PIE is a Prolog-embedded environment for automated reasoning on the basis of first-order logic. It includes a versatile formula macro system and supports the creation of documents that intersperse macro definitions, reasoner invocations and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Christoph Wernhard

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

A logic has uniform interpolation if its formulas can be projected down to given subsignatures, preserving all logical consequences that do not mention the removed symbols; the weaker property of (Craig) interpolation allows the projected…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Fatemeh Seifan , Lutz Schröder , Dirk Pattinson

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 provide a direct method for proving Craig interpolation for a range of modal and intuitionistic logics, including those containing a "converse" modality. We demonstrate this method for classical tense logic, its extensions with path…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Tim Lyon , Alwen Tiu , Rajeev Goré , Ranald Clouston

Interpolation-based techniques become popular in recent years, as they can improve the scalability of existing verification techniques due to their inherent modularity and local reasoning capabilities. Synthesizing Craig interpolants is the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hao Wu , Jie Wang , Bican Xia , Xiakun Li , Naijun Zhan , Ting Gan

Craig's Interpolation theorem has a wide range of applications, from mathematical logic to computer science. Proof-theoretic techniques for establishing interpolation usually follow a method first introduced by Maehara for the Sequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Meven Lennon Bertrand , Alexis Saurin

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

Craig interpolation in SMT is difficult because, e. g., theory combination and integer cuts introduce mixed literals, i. e., literals containing local symbols from both input formulae. In this paper, we present a scheme to compute Craig…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Jürgen Christ , Jochen Hoenicke , Alexander Nutz

The problem of computing Craig Interpolants has recently received a lot of interest. In this paper, we address the problem of efficient generation of interpolants for some important fragments of first order logic, which are amenable for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-06-25 Alessandro Cimatti , Alberto Griggio , Roberto Sebastiani

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

Finding solution values for unknowns in Boolean equations was a principal reasoning mode in the Algebra of Logic of the 19th century. Schr\"oder investigated it as Aufl\"osungsproblem (solution problem). It is closely related to the modern…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Christoph Wernhard

ASPIC+ is one of the main general frameworks for rule-based argumentation for AI. Although first-order rules are commonly used in ASPIC+ examples, most existing approaches to reason over rule-based argumentation only support propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Martin Diller , Sarah Alice Gaggl , Philipp Hanisch , Giuseppina Monterosso , Fritz Rauschenbach

Interpolation is an important property of classical and many non-classical logics that has been shown to have interesting applications in computer science and AI. Here we study the Interpolation Property for the the non-monotonic system of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Dov Gabbay , David Pearce , Agustín Valverde