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Nested Sequents for Intuitionistic Multi-Modal Logics: Modularity, Cut-Elimination, and Undecidability

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A faithful negative translation embeds classical grammar logics into intuitionistic ones, establishing undecidability of the validity problem for intuitionistic grammar logics.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper constructs single-conclusion nested sequent calculi for intuitionistic grammar logics, which generalize standard intuitionistic modal and tense logics with combinations of T, B, 4, 5, and D axioms. It introduces a shift rule that consolidates various structural rules for frame conditions, supporting uniform proofs of invertibility, admissibility, and cut-elimination across the entire class. The central result is a negative translation that faithfully embeds classical grammar logics into these intuitionistic systems via proof transformations, reducing the known undecidable validity problem for classical cases to the intuitionistic setting.

Core claim

By defining a negative translation from classical grammar logics to intuitionistic grammar logics and verifying faithfulness through mappings between multi-conclusion and single-conclusion nested sequent proofs, the authors reduce the general validity problem for classical grammar logics to that for intuitionistic grammar logics, implying undecidability for the latter since it is already undecidable for the former.

What carries the argument

The shift rule, a novel structural rule that unifies frame-condition rules for T, B, 4, 5, and D into one, enabling a uniform syntactic cut-admissibility proof over all intuitionistic grammar logics.

If this is right

  • The nested sequent calculi are cut-free and complete for every intuitionistic grammar logic in the class.
  • A single uniform procedure decides cut-admissibility without separate proofs for each axiom combination.
  • Validity checking in any intuitionistic grammar logic reduces directly to the corresponding classical case.
  • Standard intuitionistic modal logics such as IK and IKt with added axioms inherit the undecidability result.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar negative translations could transfer decidability or complexity results between classical and intuitionistic variants of other modal logics.
  • The modular shift rule might simplify implementation of automated theorem provers for families of intuitionistic modal systems.
  • The embedding technique suggests that proof-search complexity in intuitionistic grammar logics tracks that of their classical counterparts.

Load-bearing premise

The negative translation preserves validity for every combination of the T, B, 4, 5, and D axioms while the shift rule correctly captures all corresponding frame conditions.

What would settle it

A concrete counterexample formula that is valid in some intuitionistic grammar logic but whose image under the negative translation is not valid in the corresponding classical grammar logic, or vice versa.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.22174 by Tim S. Lyon.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Depictions of the (F1) and (F2) conditions imposed on models. Dotted arrows [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The nested sequent system NIKm(A) defined relative to the set A of axioms. Note that dx ∈ NIKm(A) iff Dx ∈ A. We sometimes refer to a component as a w-component if w is the name of that com￾ponent, and we use the notation G{H1}w1 . . . {Hn}wn to indicate that Hi is ‘rooted at’ the wi-component of G for i ∈ [n]. Often, we will more simply write G{H1} . . . {Hn} if the names of the components are not of rele… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: A diagram depicting which hp-admissibility (and hp-invertibility) results are suf [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Height-preserving admissible rules in NIKm(A). The remaining hp-admissibility results are all proven by induction on the height of the given proof π. Lemma 4.2. The ⊥R, necx, wL, wR, and ew rules are hp-admissible in NIKm(A). Proof. Let r ∈ {⊥R, necx, wL,wR, ew}. We make a case distinction on the last rule r ′ ∈ NIKm(A) applied in the given proof π. Observe that applying r (if possible) to an id or ⊥L inst… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Some interpolation rules. (1) sig◦ (I ⇒ J ) = sig• (I) ∪ sig◦ (J ); (2) sig◦ (I ⊕ J ) = sig◦ (I) ∪ sig◦ (J ) for ⊕ ∈ { , }; (3) sig◦ (∇xI) = sig◦ (I) for ∇x ∈ {⟨x⟩, [x]}. Lemma 5.4. If NIKm(A), π ⊩ G, then for any biasing Ge of G there exists an interpolation proof π ′ and interpolant I such that NIKI m(A), π′ ⊩ G ∥ I e and (1) Names(I) ⊆ Names(Ge); (2) sig◦ (I) ⊆ sig• (GeL ) ∩ sig◦ (GeR ). 27 [PITH_FULL_… view at source ↗
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We introduce and study single-conclusioned nested sequent calculi for a broad class of intuitionistic multi-modal logics known as "intuitionistic grammar logics (IGLs)." These logics serve as the intuitionistic counterparts of classical grammar logics, and subsume standard intuitionistic modal and tense logics, including IK and IKt extended with combinations of the T, B, 4, 5, and D axioms. We analyze fundamental invertibility and admissibility properties of our calculi and introduce a novel structural rule, called the "shift rule," which unifies standard structural rules arising from modal frame conditions into a single rule. This rule enables a purely syntactic proof of cut-admissibility that is uniform over all IGLs, and yields completeness of our nested calculi as a corollary. Finally, we define a negative translation that constitutes a faithful embedding of classical grammar logics (CGLs) into IGLs, witnessed by proof transformations between multi-conclusioned and single-conclusioned nested sequent proofs for CGLs and IGLs, respectively. This reduces the general validity problem for CGLs to that of IGLs. The general validity problem over a class C of logics asks: given a logic L in C and a formula A, is A valid in L? As this problem is known to be undecidable for CGLs, our reduction implies its undecidability for IGLs as well.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces single-conclusion nested sequent calculi for intuitionistic grammar logics (IGLs), which extend standard intuitionistic modal logics with arbitrary combinations of the T, B, 4, 5, and D axioms. It defines a novel shift rule that unifies structural rules arising from modal frame conditions, establishes invertibility and admissibility properties, and gives a uniform syntactic proof of cut-admissibility that yields completeness. It further defines a negative translation that embeds classical grammar logics (CGLs) into IGLs via proof transformations between multi-conclusion and single-conclusion nested sequents, reducing the known undecidability of the general validity problem for CGLs to IGLs.

Significance. If the central results hold, the work supplies a modular, uniform proof-theoretic framework for a wide family of intuitionistic multi-modal logics together with a syntactic cut-elimination argument that applies across all IGLs. The negative-translation embedding is a technically interesting bridge between classical and intuitionistic grammar logics and directly yields undecidability of the general validity problem for IGLs, a result that strengthens the landscape of decidability/undecidability results in non-classical modal logic.

major comments (2)
  1. [Negative translation and embedding (Section on negative translation)] The faithfulness claim for the negative translation (witnessed by proof transformations) is load-bearing for the undecidability reduction. The abstract states that the translation preserves validity for every combination of T, B, 4, 5, and D, yet the interaction of D (seriality) and 5 (Euclidean) with the intuitionistic preorder, modal accessibility relation, and persistence condition is non-trivial; an explicit verification or case analysis for all 2^5 combinations, especially D+5, is required to confirm that the embedding is faithful in both directions.
  2. [Definition and properties of the shift rule] The shift rule is presented as correctly encoding all frame conditions for the entire class of IGLs and enabling the uniform cut-elimination argument. Because the rule is the key device that replaces the usual collection of structural rules, the manuscript must demonstrate that the rule is sound and complete with respect to the full set of frame conditions for every combination, including those involving D and 5; otherwise the uniformity claim and the subsequent completeness corollary rest on an unverified assumption.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Preliminaries] Notation for the two accessibility relations (intuitionistic preorder and modal accessibility) should be introduced with explicit persistence clauses at the first use to avoid ambiguity when discussing mixed axiom sets.
  2. [Abstract] The abstract would benefit from a short concrete example illustrating how the shift rule replaces two or three standard structural rules for a specific axiom combination such as 4+5.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the careful and constructive report, and for the positive assessment of the significance of our results. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will undertake.

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  1. Referee: [Negative translation and embedding (Section on negative translation)] The faithfulness claim for the negative translation (witnessed by proof transformations) is load-bearing for the undecidability reduction. The abstract states that the translation preserves validity for every combination of T, B, 4, 5, and D, yet the interaction of D (seriality) and 5 (Euclidean) with the intuitionistic preorder, modal accessibility relation, and persistence condition is non-trivial; an explicit verification or case analysis for all 2^5 combinations, especially D+5, is required to confirm that the embedding is faithful in both directions.

    Authors: We agree that making the faithfulness verification fully explicit strengthens the presentation. The manuscript already contains a general semantic argument establishing that the negative translation preserves validity for arbitrary combinations of the axioms, relying on the correspondence between the single-conclusion nested sequent rules and the frame conditions together with the proof transformations between multi- and single-conclusion systems. To address the referee's request directly, the revised version will include an appendix with a compact case analysis covering all 32 combinations. The analysis for D+5 will explicitly check the interaction with the intuitionistic preorder and persistence condition, confirming both directions of the embedding. This addition does not alter the existing general proof but renders the verification fully transparent. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Definition and properties of the shift rule] The shift rule is presented as correctly encoding all frame conditions for the entire class of IGLs and enabling the uniform cut-elimination argument. Because the rule is the key device that replaces the usual collection of structural rules, the manuscript must demonstrate that the rule is sound and complete with respect to the full set of frame conditions for every combination, including those involving D and 5; otherwise the uniformity claim and the subsequent completeness corollary rest on an unverified assumption.

    Authors: The shift rule is defined so that its instances directly correspond to the modal frame conditions induced by any subset of {T, B, 4, 5, D}. Soundness and completeness of the rule (relative to the class of frames satisfying the selected conditions) are established in the manuscript by a uniform semantic argument that does not depend on the particular combination chosen. Nevertheless, we acknowledge the value of making the encoding explicit for the non-standard cases. The revised manuscript will add a short subsection that spells out how the shift rule encodes seriality (D) and the Euclidean property (5) in the presence of the intuitionistic preorder and persistence, thereby confirming that the uniformity claim holds for these combinations as well. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: syntactic cut-elimination and external reduction to known CGL undecidability

full rationale

The paper defines single-conclusion nested sequent calculi for IGLs, introduces the shift rule as a novel unification of structural rules, proves cut-admissibility syntactically and uniformly, and obtains completeness as a corollary. It then defines a negative translation and establishes faithfulness via explicit proof transformations between multi- and single-conclusion nested sequent systems. Undecidability of IGL validity follows directly from the known undecidability for CGLs via this embedding. None of these steps reduce by construction to prior inputs, self-definitions, or unverified self-citations; the embedding and transformations supply independent syntactic content, and the CGL undecidability is treated as an external known result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The work rests on standard sequent-calculus axioms and modal frame conditions; the main addition is the shift rule as a new structural construct rather than new logical axioms or fitted parameters.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Standard invertibility and admissibility properties of nested sequents hold for the base intuitionistic modal logic IK and its extensions
    Invoked to support the uniform treatment of IGLs that subsume IK and IKt plus T, B, 4, 5, D.
invented entities (1)
  • shift rule no independent evidence
    purpose: Unifies multiple structural rules arising from modal frame conditions into one rule
    Introduced to obtain a single syntactic cut-admissibility proof that works for the entire class of IGLs.

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