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Model-theoretic characterization of intuitionistic propositional formulas

Logic 2015-04-13 v1

Abstract

Notions of k-asimulation and asimulation are introduced as asymmetric counterparts to k-bisimulation and bisimulation, respectively. It is proved that a first-order formula is equivalent to a standard translation of an intuitionistic propositional formula iff it is invariant with respect to k-asimulations for some k, and then that a first-order formula is equivalent to a standard translation of an intuitionistic propositional formula iff it is invariant with respect to asimulations. Finally, it is proved that a first-order formula is intuitionistically equivalent to a standard translation of an intuitionistic propositional formula iff it is invariant with respect to asimulations between intuitionistic models.

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@article{arxiv.1207.4414,
  title  = {Model-theoretic characterization of intuitionistic propositional formulas},
  author = {Grigory K. Olkhovikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.4414},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages, 0 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1202.1195

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