Hard provability logics

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Abstract: Let mathcalPL(sfT,s′fT) and mathcalPLSigma1(sfT,s′fT) respectively indicates the provability logic and Sigma1-provability logic of sfT relative in sfT'. In this paper we characterize the following relative provability logics: mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA,mathbbN), mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA,sfPA), mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA∗,mathbbN), mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA∗,sfPA), mathcalPL(sfPA,sfHA), mathcalPLSigma1(sfPA,sfHA), mathcalPL(sfPA∗,sfHA), mathcalPLSigma1(sfPA∗,sfHA), mathcalPL(sfPA∗,sfPA), mathcalPLSigma1(sfPA∗,sfPA), mathcalPL(sfPA∗,mathbbN), mathcalPLSigma1(sfPA∗,mathbbN) (see Table ef{Table-Theories}). It turns out that all of these provability logics are decidable. The notion of {em reduction} for provability logics, first informally considered in cite{reduction}. In this paper, we formalize a generalization of this notion (Cref{Definition-Reduction-PL}) and provide several reductions of provability logics (See diagram ef{Diagram-full}). The interesting fact is that mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA,mathbbN) is the hardest provability logic: the arithmetical completenesses of all provability logics listed above, as well as well-known provability logics like mathcalPL(sfPA,sfPA), mathcalPL(sfPA,mathbbN), mathcalPLSigma1(sfPA,sfPA), mathcalPLSigma1(sfPA,mathbbN) and mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA,sfHA) are all propositionally reducible to the arithmetical completeness of mathcalPLSigma1(sfHA,mathbbN).












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