Semantical Analysis of Intuitionistic Modal Logics between CK and IK

28 July 2025, 12:00, CSIT Level 2 - Systems Area
Speaker: Ranald Clouston (ANU)

Abstract#

The intuitionistic modal logics considered between Constructive K (CK) and Intuitionistic K (IK) differ in their treatment of the possibility (diamond) connective. It was recently rediscovered that some logics between CK and IK also disagree on their diamond-free fragments, with only some remaining conservative over the standard axiomatisation of intuitionistic modal logic with necessity (box) alone. We show that relational Kripke semantics for CK can be extended with frame conditions for all axioms in the standard axiomatisation of IK, as well as other axioms previously studied. This allows us to answer open questions about the (non-)conservativity of such logics over intuitionistic modal logic without diamond. Our results are formalised using the Rocq Proof Assistant.

This is joint work with Jim de Groot and Ian Shillito, presented at the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS '25).

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