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Converse PDL is the extension of propositional dynamic logic with a converse operation on programs. Our main result states that Converse PDL enjoys the (local) Craig Interpolation Property, with respect to both atomic programs and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Johannes Kloibhofer , Valentina Trucco Dalmas , Yde Venema

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

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

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

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

Description logics (DLs) are standard knowledge representation languages for modelling ontologies, i.e. knowledge about concepts and the relations between them. Unfortunately, DL ontologies are difficult to learn from data and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Yazmín Ibáñez-García , Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto , Steven Schockaert

We prove that there are continuum-many axiomatic extensions of the full Lambek calculus with exchange that have the deductive interpolation property. Further, we extend this result to both classical and intuitionistic linear logic as well…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Wesley Fussner , Simon Santschi

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

We look at characterizing which formulas are expressible in rich decidable logics such as guarded fixpoint logic, unary negation fixpoint logic, and guarded negation fixpoint logic. We consider semantic characterizations of definability, as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Michael Benedikt , Pierre Bourhis , Michael Vanden Boom

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…

We bring an abstract model theory perspective to interpolation. We ask, what is the role of interpolation in the study of extensions of first order logic, such as infinitary logics, generalized quantifiers and higher order logics? The…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Jouko Väänänen

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

In this article we show that bi-intuitionistic predicate logic lacks the Craig Interpolation Property. We proceed by adapting the counterexample given by Mints, Olkhovikov and Urquhart for intuitionistic predicate logic with constant…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Grigory K. Olkhovikov , Guillermo Badia

This is a survey on propositional proof complexity aimed at introducing the basics of the field with a particular focus on a method known as feasible interpolation. This method is used to construct "hard theorems" for several proof systems…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai

Which choices of truth tables and consequence relations for two logics $\mathsf{L}_1$ and $\mathsf{L}_2$ ensure the satisfaction of the following split interpolation property: If two formulas $\phi$ and $\psi$ share at least one…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Quentin Blomet

This paper is a study of first-order coherent logic from the point of view of duality and categorical logic. We prove a duality theorem between coherent hyperdoctrines and open polyadic Priestley spaces, which we subsequently apply to prove…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Sam van Gool , Jérémie Marquès

In this chapter, we present six different proofs of Craig interpolation for the modal logic K, each using a different set of techniques (model-theoretic, proof-theoretic, syntactic, automata-theoretic, using quasi-models, and algebraic). We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Nick Bezhanishvili , Balder ten Cate , Rosalie Iemhoff

Interpretability is the study of explaining models in understandable terms to humans. At present, interpretability is divided into two paradigms: the intrinsic paradigm, which believes that only models designed to be explained can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Andreas Madsen , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Siva Reddy , Sarath Chandar

Interpolation-based techniques have become popularized in recent years because of their inherently modular and local reasoning, which can scale up existing formal verification techniques like theorem proving, model-checking, abstraction…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ting Gan , Bican Xia , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Liyun Dai

The aim of this expository article is to present recent developments in the centuries old discussion on the interrelations between continuous and differentiable real valued functions of one real variable. The truly new results include,…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Krzysztof C. Ciesielski , Juan B. Seoane Sepúlveda