{"title":"Universal proof theory: Feasible admissibility in intuitionistic modal logics","authors":"Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai , Raheleh Jalali","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103526","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We introduce a general and syntactically defined family of sequent-style calculi over the propositional language with the modalities <span><math><mo>{</mo><mo>□</mo><mo>,</mo><mo>◇</mo><mo>}</mo></math></span> and its fragments as a formalization for constructively acceptable systems. Calling these calculi <em>constructive</em>, we show that any strong enough constructive sequent calculus, satisfying a mild technical condition, feasibly admits all Visser's rules. This means that there exists a polynomial-time algorithm that, given a proof of the premise of a Visser's rule, provides a proof for its conclusion. As a positive application, we establish the feasible admissibility of Visser's rules in sequent calculi for several intuitionistic modal logics, including <span><math><mi>CK</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>IK</mi></math></span>, their extensions by the modal axioms <em>T</em>, <em>B</em>, 4, 5, and the axioms for bounded width and depth and their fragments <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>CK</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>□</mo></mrow></msub></math></span>, propositional lax logic and <span><math><mi>IPC</mi></math></span>. On the negative side, we show that if a strong enough intuitionistic modal logic (satisfying a mild technical condition) does not admit at least one of Visser's rules, it cannot have a constructive sequent calculus. Consequently, no intermediate logic other than <span><math><mi>IPC</mi></math></span> has a constructive sequent calculus.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103526"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142561348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bi-colored expansions of geometric theories","authors":"S. Jalili , M. Pourmahdian , M. Khani","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper concerns the study of expansions of models of a geometric theory <em>T</em> by a color predicate <em>p</em>, within the framework of the Fraïssé-Hrushovski construction method. For each <span><math><mi>α</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>(</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>]</mo></math></span>, we define a pre-dimension function <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>δ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> on the class of Bi-colored models of <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∀</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> and consider the subclass <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span> consisting of models with hereditary positive <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>δ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>. We impose certain natural conditions on <em>T</em> that enable us to introduce a complete <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Π</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>-theory <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> for the rich models in <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>K</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>+</mo></mrow></msubsup></math></span>. We show how the transfer of certain model-theoretic properties, such as NIP and strong-dependence, from <em>T</em> to <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, depends on whether <em>α</em> is rational or irrational.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142553194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equiconsistency of the Minimalist Foundation with its classical version","authors":"Maria Emilia Maietti, Pietro Sabelli","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103524","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103524","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Minimalist Foundation, for short <strong>MF</strong>, was conceived by the first author with G. Sambin in 2005, and fully formalized in 2009, as a common core among the most relevant constructive and classical foundations for mathematics. To better accomplish its minimality, <strong>MF</strong> was designed as a two-level type theory, with an intensional level <strong>mTT</strong>, an extensional one <strong>emTT</strong>, and an interpretation of the latter into the first.</div><div>Here, we first show that the two levels of <strong>MF</strong> are indeed equiconsistent by interpreting <strong>mTT</strong> into <strong>emTT</strong>. Then, we show that the classical extension <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>emTT</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> is equiconsistent with <strong>emTT</strong> by suitably extending the Gödel-Gentzen double-negation translation of classical logic in the intuitionistic one. As a consequence, <strong>MF</strong> turns out to be compatible with classical predicative mathematics à la Weyl, contrary to the most relevant foundations for constructive mathematics.</div><div>Finally, we show that the chain of equiconsistency results for <strong>MF</strong> can be straightforwardly extended to its impredicative version to deduce that Coquand-Huet's Calculus of Constructions equipped with basic inductive types is equiconsistent with its extensional and classical versions too.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142553193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some properties of precompletely and positively numbered sets","authors":"Marat Faizrahmanov","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103523","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103523","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we prove a joint generalization of Arslanov's completeness criterion and Visser's ADN theorem for precomplete numberings which, for the Gödel numbering <span><math><mi>x</mi><mo>↦</mo><msub><mrow><mi>W</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, has been proved by Terwijn (2018). The question of whether this joint generalization takes place in each precomplete numbering has been raised in his joint paper with Barendregt in 2019. Then we consider the properties of completeness and precompleteness of numberings in the context of the positivity property. We show that no completion of a positive numbering is a minimal cover of that numbering, and that the Turing completeness of any set <em>A</em> is equivalent to the existence of a positive precomplete <em>A</em>-computable numbering of any infinite family with positive <em>A</em>-computable numbering. In addition, we prove that each <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>-computable numbering (<span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>⩾</mo><mn>2</mn></math></span>) of a <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>-computable non-principal family has a <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>-computable minimal cover <em>ν</em> such that for every computable function <em>f</em> there exists an integer <em>n</em> with <span><math><mi>ν</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>f</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><mi>ν</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103523"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142420439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strong reducibilities and set theory","authors":"Noah Schweber","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103522","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103522","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study Medvedev reducibility in the context of set theory — specifically, forcing and large cardinal hypotheses. Answering a question of Hamkins and Li <span><span>[6]</span></span>, we show that the Medvedev degrees of countable ordinals are far from linearly ordered in multiple ways, our main result here being that there is a club of ordinals which is an antichain with respect to Medvedev reducibility. We then generalize these results to arbitrary “reasonably-definable” reducibilities, under appropriate set-theoretic hypotheses.</div><div>We then turn from ordinals to general structures. We show that some of the results above yield characterizations of counterexamples to Vaught's conjecture; another applies to all situations, assigning an ordinal to any reasonable class of structures and “measure” on that class. We end by discussing some directions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103522"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142535830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dividing and forking in random hypergraphs","authors":"Hirotaka Kikyo , Akito Tsuboi","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103521","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103521","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the class of <em>m</em>-hypergraphs in which substructures with <em>l</em> elements have more than <em>s</em> subsets of size <em>m</em> that do not form a hyperedge. The class has a (unique) Fraïssé limit, if <span><math><mn>0</mn><mo>≤</mo><mi>s</mi><mo><</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mtable><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>l</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>m</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr></mtable><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>. We show that the theory of the Fraïssé limit has <em>SU</em>-rank one if <span><math><mn>0</mn><mo>≤</mo><mi>s</mi><mo><</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mtable><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>l</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>m</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr></mtable><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>, and dividing and forking will be different concepts in the theory if <span><math><mrow><mo>(</mo><mtable><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>l</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>m</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr></mtable><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>≤</mo><mi>s</mi><mo><</mo><mrow><mo>(</mo><mtable><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>l</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr><mtr><mtd><mrow><mi>m</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></mtd></mtr></mtable><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saturation properties for compositional truth with propositional correctness","authors":"Bartosz Wcisło","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is an open question whether compositional truth with the principle of propositional soundness: “All arithmetical sentences which are propositional tautologies are true” is conservative over Peano Arithmetic. In this article, we show that the principle of propositional soundness imposes some saturation-like properties on the truth predicate, thus showing significant limitations to the possible conservativity proof.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 2","pages":"Article 103512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007224001167/pdfft?md5=93f2e704b024dfc73e7a30a7ab95c178&pid=1-s2.0-S0168007224001167-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foundations of iterated star maps and their use in combinatorics","authors":"Mauro Di Nasso , Renling Jin","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103511","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We develop a framework for nonstandard analysis that gives foundations to the interplay between external and internal iterations of the star map, and we present a few examples to show the strength and flexibility of such a nonstandard technique for applications in combinatorial number theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 1","pages":"Article 103511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142136431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theories of Frege structure equivalent to Feferman's system T0","authors":"Daichi Hayashi","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Feferman <span><span>[9]</span></span> defines an impredicative system <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> of explicit mathematics, which is proof-theoretically equivalent to the subsystem <figure><img></figure> of second-order arithmetic. In this paper, we propose several systems of Frege structure with the same proof-theoretic strength as <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>. To be precise, we first consider the Kripke–Feferman theory, which is one of the most famous truth theories, and we extend it by two kinds of induction principles inspired by <span><span>[22]</span></span>. In addition, we give similar results for the system based on Aczel's original Frege structure <span><span>[1]</span></span>. Finally, we equip Cantini's supervaluation-style theory with the notion of universes, the strength of which was an open problem in <span><span>[24]</span></span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 1","pages":"Article 103510"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142099250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Universal proof theory: Semi-analytic rules and Craig interpolation","authors":"Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai , Raheleh Jalali","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We provide a general and syntactically defined family of sequent calculi, called <em>semi-analytic</em>, to formalize the informal notion of a “nice” sequent calculus. We show that any sufficiently strong (multimodal) substructural logic with a semi-analytic sequent calculus enjoys the Craig Interpolation Property, CIP. As a positive application, our theorem provides a uniform and modular method to prove the CIP for several multimodal substructural logics, including many fragments and variants of linear logic. More interestingly, on the negative side, it employs the lack of the CIP in almost all substructural, superintuitionistic and modal logics to provide a formal proof for the well-known intuition that almost all logics do not have a “nice” sequent calculus. More precisely, we show that many substructural logics including <span><math><mi>U</mi><msup><mrow><mi>L</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>, <span><math><mi>MTL</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>R</mi></math></span>, <span>Ł</span><sub><em>n</em></sub> (for <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>⩾</mo><mn>3</mn></math></span>), <span>G</span><sub><em>n</em></sub> (for <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>⩾</mo><mn>4</mn></math></span>), and almost all extensions of <span><math><mi>IMTL</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>Ł</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>BL</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>R</mi><msup><mrow><mi>M</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>e</mi></mrow></msup></math></span>, <span><math><mi>IPC</mi></math></span>, <span><math><mi>S4</mi></math></span>, and <span><math><mi>Grz</mi></math></span> (except for at most 1, 1, 3, 8, 7, 37, and 6 of them, respectively) do not have a semi-analytic calculus.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 1","pages":"Article 103509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142087766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}