Interpretability logic

Interpretability logics comprise a family of modal logics that extend provability logic to describe interpretability or various related metamathematical properties and relations such as weak interpretability, Π₁-conservativity, cointerpretability, tolerance, cotolerance, and arithmetic complexities.

Main contributors to the field are Alessandro Berarducci, Petr Hájek, Konstantin Ignatiev, Giorgi Japaridze, Franco Montagna, Vladimir Shavrukov, Rineke Verbrugge, Albert Visser, and Domenico Zambella.

Examples

Logic ILM: The language of ILM extends that of classical propositional logic by adding the unary modal operator $\Box$ and the binary modal operator $\triangleright$ (as always, $\Diamond p$ is defined as $\neg \Box\neg p$ ). The arithmetical interpretation of $\Box p$ is “ $p$ is provable in Peano Arithmetic PA”, and $p \triangleright q$ is understood as “ $PA+q$ is interpretable in $PA+p$ ”.

Axiom schemata:

1. All classical tautologies

2. $\Box(p \rightarrow q) \rightarrow (\Box p \rightarrow \Box q)$

3. $\Box(\Box p \rightarrow p) \rightarrow \Box p$

4. $\Box (p \rightarrow q) \rightarrow (p \triangleright q)$

5. $(p \triangleright q)\wedge (q \triangleright r)\rightarrow (p\triangleright r)$

6. $(p \triangleright r)\wedge (q \triangleright r)\rightarrow ((p\vee q)\triangleright r)$

7. $(p \triangleright q)\rightarrow (\Diamond p\triangleright\Diamond q)$

8. $\Diamond p \triangleright p$

9. $(p \triangleright q)\rightarrow((p\wedge\Box r)\triangleright (q\wedge\Box r))$

Rules inference:

1. “From $p$ and $p\rightarrow q$ conclude $q$ ”

2. “From $p$ conclude $\Box p$ ”.

The completeness of ILM with respect to its arithmetical interpretation was independently proven by Alessandro Berarducci and Vladimir Shavrukov.

Logic TOL: The language of TOL extends that of classical propositional logic by adding the modal operator $\Diamond$ which is allowed to take any nonempty sequence of arguments. The arithmetical interpretation of $\Diamond( p_1,\ldots,p_n)$ is “ $(PA+p_1,\ldots,PA+p_n)$ is a tolerant sequence of theories”.

Axioms (with $p,q$ standing for any formulas, $\vec{r},\vec{s}$ for any sequences of formulas, and $\Diamond()$ identified with ⊤):

1. All classical tautologies

2. $\Diamond (\vec{r},p,\vec{s})\rightarrow \Diamond (\vec{r}, p\wedge\neg q,\vec{s})\vee \Diamond (\vec{r}, q,\vec{s})$

3. $\Diamond (p)\rightarrow \Diamond (p\wedge \neg\Diamond (p))$

4. $\Diamond (\vec{r},p,\vec{s})\rightarrow \Diamond (\vec{r},\vec{s})$

5. $\Diamond (\vec{r},p,\vec{s})\rightarrow \Diamond (\vec{r},p,p,\vec{s})$

6. $\Diamond (p,\Diamond(\vec{r}))\rightarrow \Diamond (p\wedge\Diamond(\vec{r}))$

7. $\Diamond (\vec{r},\Diamond(\vec{s}))\rightarrow \Diamond (\vec{r},\vec{s})$

Rules inference:

1. “From $p$ and $p\rightarrow q$ conclude $q$ ”

2. “From $\neg p$ conclude $\neg \Diamond( p)$ ”.

The completeness of TOL with respect to its arithmetical interpretation was proven by Giorgi Japaridze.

References

Giorgi Japaridze and Dick de Jongh, The Logic of Provability. In Handbook of Proof Theory, S.Buss, ed. Elsevier, 1998, pp. 475-546.

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