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Self Provers and $\Sigma_1$ Sentences

Logic 2020-04-16 v1

Abstract

This paper from 2012 is the second in a series of three papers. All three papers deal with interpretability logics and related matters. In the first paper a construction method was exposed to obtain models of these logics. Using this method, we obtained some completeness results, some already known, and some new. In this paper, we will set the construction method to work to obtain more results. First, the modal completeness of the logic IL(M){\textbf{IL}}({\sf M}) is proved using the construction method. This is not a new result, but by using our new proof we can obtain new results. Among these new results are some admissible rules for IL(M){\textbf{IL}}({\sf M}) and GL{\textbf{GL}}. Moreover, the new proof will be used to classify all the essentially Δ1\Delta_1 and also all the essentially Σ1\Sigma_1 formulas of IL(M){\textbf{IL}}({\sf M}). Closely related to essentially Σ1\Sigma_1 sentences are the so-called \emph{self provers}. A self-prover is a formula φ\varphi which implies its own provability, that is φφ\varphi \to \Box \varphi. Each formula φ\varphi will generate a self prover φφ\varphi \wedge \Box \varphi. We will use the construction method to characterize those sentences of GL{\textbf{GL}} that generate a self prover that is trivial in the sense that it is Σ1\Sigma_1.

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@article{arxiv.2004.06934,
  title  = {Self Provers and $\Sigma_1$ Sentences},
  author = {Evan Goris and Joost J. Joosten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06934},
  year   = {2020}
}
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