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CUT-FREE SEQUENT CALCULI FOR THE PROVABILITY LOGIC D

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2025

RYO KASHIMA*
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTING SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO TOKYO, JAPAN
TAISHI KURAHASHI
Affiliation:
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS KOBE UNIVERSITY, JAPAN E-mail: kurahashi@people.kobe-u.ac.jp
SOHEI IWATA
Affiliation:
DIVISION OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES AICHI-GAKUIN UNIVERSITY, JAPAN E-mail: siwata@dpc.agu.ac.jp
SO MORIOKA
Affiliation:
MONEY FORWARD, INC. TOKYO, JAPAN E-mail: soubaseoct@icloud.com
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Abstract

We say that a Kripke model is a GL-model (Gödel and Löb model) if the accessibility relation $\prec $ is transitive and converse well-founded. We say that a Kripke model is a D-model if it is obtained by attaching infinitely many worlds $t_1, t_2, \ldots $, and $t_\omega $ to a world $t_0$ of a GL-model so that $t_0 \succ t_1 \succ t_2 \succ \cdots \succ t_\omega $. A non-normal modal logic $\mathbf {D}$, which was studied by Beklemishev [3], is characterized as follows. A formula $\varphi $ is a theorem of $\mathbf {D}$ if and only if $\varphi $ is true at $t_\omega $ in any D-model. $\mathbf {D}$ is an intermediate logic between the provability logics $\mathbf {GL}$ and $\mathbf {S}$. A Hilbert-style proof system for $\mathbf {D}$ is known, but there has been no sequent calculus. In this paper, we establish two sequent calculi for $\mathbf {D}$, and show the cut-elimination theorem. We also introduce new Hilbert-style systems for $\mathbf {D}$ by interpreting the sequent calculi. Moreover, we show that D-models can be defined using an arbitrary limit ordinal as well as $\omega $. Finally, we show a general result as follows. Let X and $X^+$ be arbitrary modal logics. If the relationship between semantics of X and semantics of $X^+$ is equal to that of $\mathbf {GL}$ and $\mathbf {D}$, then $X^+$ can be axiomatized based on X in the same way as the new axiomatization of $\mathbf {D}$ based on $\mathbf {GL}$.

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Figure 1 (Left) D-model by Beklemishev. (Right) New D-model.

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Table 1 Four sequent calculi

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Figure 2 $\langle W^+, \prec ^+, V^+\rangle $ in Theorem 5.6 (left) and in Theorem 5.7 (right).

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Table 2 Rewriting for generalization

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Figure 3 A $\lambda $-extension of a finite linear GL-model and its submodel.