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Algorithmic correspondence and canonicity for non-distributive logics

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Abstract

We extend the theory of unified correspondence to a broad class of logics with algebraic semantics given by varieties of normal lattice expansions (LEs), also known as ‘lattices with operators’. Specifically, we introduce a syntactic definition of the class of Sahlqvist formulas and inequalities which applies uniformly to each LE-signature and is given purely in terms of the order-theoretic properties of the algebraic interpretations of the logical connectives. We also introduce the algorithm ALBA, parametric in each LE-setting, which effectively computes first-order correspondents of LE-inequalities, and is guaranteed to succeed on a wide class of inequalities (the so-called inductive inequalities) which significantly extend the Sahlqvist class. Further, we show that every inequality on which ALBA succeeds is canonical. Projecting these results on specific signatures yields state-of-the-art correspondence and canonicity theory for many well known modal expansions of classical and intuitionistic logic and for substructural logics, from classical poly-modal logics to (bi-)intuitionistic modal logics to the Lambek calculus and its extensions, the Lambek-Grishin calculus, orthologic, the logic of (not necessarily distributive) De Morgan lattices, and the multiplicative-additive fragment of linear logic.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)923-974
Number of pages52
JournalAnnals of Pure and Applied Logic
Volume170
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2019
Externally publishedYes

Funding

The research of the first author was supported by the National Research Foundation of South Africa grant number 81309.The research of the second author was supported by the Vidi grant 016.138.314 of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), by the NWO Aspasia grant 015.008.054, and by a Delft Technology Fellowship awarded in 2013.

FundersFunder number
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Vidi grant
National Research Foundation of South Africa
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek015.008.054, 016.138.314
National Research Foundation81309

    Keywords

    • Algorithmic correspondence
    • Canonicity
    • Modal logic
    • Non-distributive lattices
    • Sahlqvist correspondence
    • Substructural logics

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