Unification in pretabular extensions of S4

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Abstract: L.L. Maksimova and L. Esakia, V. Meskhi showed that the modal logic S4 has exactly 5 pretabular extensions: PM1-PM5. In this paper, we study and systematize the problem of unification for all given pretabular logics. We showed that PM2,PM3 have finitary, and PM1,PM4,PM5 have unitary types of unification. Complete sets of unifiers in logics are described.


The paper is dedicated to the study of pretabular extensions of modal logic \(\mathrm{S4}\) described in [\textit{L. L. Maksimova}, Algebra Logic 14, 16--33 (1976; Zbl 0319.02019); translation from Algebra Logika 14, 28--55 (1975)]: \[ \begin{array}{l} \mathrm{PM1 := S}4.3 + \mathcal{G}rz,\\ \mathrm{PM2} := \mathcal{G}rz + \sigma_2,\\ \mathrm{PM3} := \mathcal{G}rz + [\Box r \lor \Box(\Box r \to \sigma_2)] + (\Box\Diamond p \Leftrightarrow \Diamond\Box p),\\ \mathrm{PM4 := S}4 +[\Box p \lor \Box (\Box p \to \Box q \lor \Box \Diamond \neg q)] + (\Box \Diamond p \leftrightarrow \Diamond\Box p),\\ \mathrm{PM5 := S}5, \end{array} \] where \(\mathcal{G}rz := [\Box(\Box(p \to \Box p) \to p) \to p]\)\\ and \(\sigma_2 := [\Box p \lor \Box (\Box p \to \Box q \lor \Box \Diamond \neg q)]\). It is proven that the logics \(\mathrm{PM2}\) and \(\mathrm{PM3}\) have a finitary unification type, while the logics \(\mathrm{PM1, PM4}\) and \(\mathrm{PM5}\) have a unitary unification type, and any unifiable in \(\mathrm{PM1, PM4}\) or \(\mathrm{PM5}\) formula is projective.











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