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Vardanyan's Theorems state that $\mathsf{QPL}(\mathsf{PA})$ - the quantified provability logic of Peano Arithmetic - is $\Pi^0_2$ complete, and in particular that this already holds when the language is restricted to a single unary…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Ana de Almeida Borges , Joost J. Joosten

In this paper we investigate the complexity-theoretical aspects of cyclic and non-wellfounded proofs in the context of parsimonious logic, a variant of linear logic where the exponential modality ! is interpreted as a constructor for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Matteo Acclavio , Gianluca Curzi , Giulio Guerrieri

We describe a "slow" version of the hierarchy of uniform reflection principles over Peano Arithmetic ($\mathbf{PA}$). These principles are unprovable in Peano Arithmetic (even when extended by usual reflection principles of lower…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Anton Freund

A cyclic proof system generalises the standard notion of a proof as a finite tree of locally sound inferences by allowing proof objects to be potentially infinite. Regular infinite proofs can be finitely represented as graphs. To preclude…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Reuben N. S. Rowe , James Brotherston

Transitive closure logic is a known extension of first-order logic obtained by introducing a transitive closure operator. While other extensions of first-order logic with inductive definitions are a priori parametrized by a set of inductive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Liron Cohen , Reuben N. S. Rowe

We show that the classical interpretations of Tarski's inductive definitions actually allow us to define the satisfaction and truth of the quantified formulas of the first-order Peano Arithmetic PA over the domain N of the natural numbers…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2012-09-25 Bhupinder Singh Anand

Infinitary and cyclic proof systems are proof systems for logical formulas with fixed-point operators or inductive definitions. A cyclic proof system is a restriction of the corresponding infinitary proof system. Hence, these proof systems…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hiromasa Hori , Koji Nakazawa , Makoto Tatsuta

Dynamic logic is a modal logic for reasoning about programs. A cyclic proof system is a proof system that allows proofs containing cycles and is an alternative to a proof system containing (co-)induction. This paper introduces a sequent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yukihiro Oda

Cyclic and non-wellfounded proofs are now increasingly employed to establish metalogical results in a variety of settings, in particular for type systems with forms of (co)induction. Under the Curry-Howard correspondence, a cyclic proof can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Gianluca Curzi , Anupam Das

Most interesting proofs in mathematics contain an inductive argument which requires an extension of the LK-calculus to formalize. The most commonly used calculi for induction contain a separate rule or axiom which reduces the valid proof…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-07-21 David M. Cerna , Michael Peter Lettmann

We show that when certain statements are provable in subsystems of constructive analysis using intuitionistic predicate calculus, related sequential statements are provable in weak classical subsystems. In particular, if a $\Pi^1_2$…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-01-25 Jeffry L. Hirst , Carl Mummert

We consider cyclic proof systems in which derivations are graphs rather than trees. Such systems typically come with a condition that isolates which derivations are admitted as 'proofs', known as a the soundness condition. This soundness…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Graham E. Leigh , Dominik Wehr

A formal sequent system dealing with Menelaus' configurations is introduced in this paper. The axiomatic sequents of the system stem from 2-cycles of Delta-complexes. The Euclidean and projective interpretations of the sequents are defined…

One of the elegant achievements in the history of proof theory is the characterization of the provably total recursive functions of an arithmetical theory by its proof-theoretic ordinal as a way to measure the time complexity of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai

We give an arithmetical proof of the strong normalization of the $\lambda$-calculus (and also of the $\lambda\mu$-calculus) where the type system is the one of simple types with recursive equations on types. The proof using candidates of…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-05-08 René David , Karim Nour

The logic FO(ID) uses ideas from the field of logic programming to extend first order logic with non-monotone inductive definitions. Such logic formally extends logic programming, abductive logic programming and datalog, and thus formalizes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Ping Hou , Johan Wittocx , Marc Denecker

We offer a mathematical proof of consistency for Peano Arithmetic PA formalizable in PA. This result is compatible with Goedel's Second Incompleteness Theorem since our consistency proof does not rely on the representation of consistency as…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Sergei Artemov

We study when a sound arithmetic theory $\mathcal S{\supseteq}S^1_2$ with polynomial-time decidable axioms efficiently proves the bounded consistency statements $Con_{\mathcal S{+}\phi}(n)$ for a true sentence $\phi$. Equivalently, we ask…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hunter Monroe

The two-way modal mu-calculus is the extension of the (standard) one-way mu-calculus with converse (backward-looking) modalities. For this logic we introduce two new sequent-style proof calculi: a non-wellfounded system admitting infinite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Johannes Kloibhofer , Yde Venema

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