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On the proof theory of the modal logic for arithmetic provability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Daniel Leivant
Daniel Leivant*
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Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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The modal logic GL has been found by Solovay [13] to formalize the provable propositional properties of the provability-predicate for Peano's Arithmetic PA (cf. §1 below). We give several sequential calculi for GL, compare their merits, and use one calculus to syntactically derive several metamathematical results about GL.

Some of our results have been proved model theoretically, and similar proofs are fairly straightforward for several of the remaining ones (G. Boolos and the referee have provided such proofs for 4.1, 4.3 and 5.1 below). However, our syntactic techniques often yield more concise and obviously constructive proofs, they offer additional insight into the nature of the systems considered, and are easily adaptable to systems for which semantical analysis is problematic.

I am indebted to G. Boolos and to the referee for their valuable advice. The referee has suggested the rule GL of §3 below as an axiomatization of GL; the resulting sequential calculus has allowed a definite improvement of our original presentation.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , September 1981 , pp. 531 - 538
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1981

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