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Recent research has established complexity results for the problem of deciding the existence of interpolants in logics lacking the Craig Interpolation Property (CIP). The proof techniques developed so far are non-constructive, and no…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jean Christoph Jung , Jędrzej Kołodziejski , Frank Wolter

The interpolant existence problem (IEP) for a logic L is to decide, given formulas P and Q, whether there exists a formula I, built from the shared symbols of P and Q, such that P entails I and I entails Q in L. If L enjoys the Craig…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

This paper aims to provide an analysis of what it means when we say that a pair of theories, very generously construed, are equivalent in the sense that they are interdefinable. With regard to theories articulated in first order logic, we…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Toby Meadows

It is well-known that Choice and Regularity are independent of each other but have important common consequences of logical character (reflection principles, representations of classes by sets, etc.). We explain this phenomenon by isolating…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-09-20 Denis I. Saveliev

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

Normal modal logics extending the logic K4.3 of linear transitive frames are known to lack the Craig interpolation property, except some logics of bounded depth such as S5. We turn this `negative' fact into a research question and pursue a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Agi Kurucz , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

We examine the interplay between projectivity (in the sense that was introduced by S.~Ghilardi) and uniform post-interpolant for the classical and intuitionistic propositional logic. More precisely, we explore whether a projective…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Mojtaba Mojtahedi , Konstantinos Papafilippou

We investigate the notion of independence, which is at the basis of many, seemingly unrelated, properties of logic like Rational Monotony in non-monotonic logics, and interpolation theorems.

Logic · Mathematics 2010-01-19 Dov Null Gabbay , Karl Schlechta

This paper is a mathematical investigation on Epstein semantics. One of the main tools of the present paper is the model-theoretic S-set construction introduced in (Krawczyk 2022). We use it to prove several results: 1) that each Epstein…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Krzysztof A. Krawczyk

A common method of making a theory more understandable, is by comparing it to another theory which has been better developed. Radical interpretation is a theory which attempts to explain how communication has meaning. Radical interpretation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark D. Roberts

Interpretability and explainability have gained more and more attention in the field of machine learning as they are crucial when it comes to high-stakes decisions and troubleshooting. Since both provide information about predictors and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Benjamin Leblanc , Pascal Germain

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 propositional version of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-20 Dov Gabbay , David Pearce , Agustí n Valverde

In this work in progress, we discuss independence and interpolation and related topics for classical, modal, and non-monotonic logics.

Logic · Mathematics 2010-08-30 Dov Gabbay , Karl Schlechta

We describe a new method of finding interpolants for classical logic using certain refutation system as a starting point. Refutation can be thought of as an alternative approach to the analysis of formal systems: instead of focusing on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Adam Trybus , Karolina Rożko , Tomasz Skura

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

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

The fundamental duality theories relating algebra and geometry that were discovered in the mid-20th century can also be applied to logic via its algebraization under categorical logic. They thereby result in known and new completeness…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Steve Awodey

Uniform interpolation property (UIP) is a strengthening of Craig interpolation property. It can be understood as the definability of propositional quantifiers. This paper develops the sequent calculi provided in Murai and Sano (2020),…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Youan Su

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

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