BULLETIN OF THE SECTION OF LOGIC

35/4, 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS


1. A. V. FIGALLO, G. RAMON and S. SAAD, iH-Propositional Calculus 157   [Abstract]   [PDF]
2. Tarek Sayed AHMED and Basim SAMIR, Neat Embeddings and Amalgamation 163   [Abstract]   [PDF]
3. David Gracia GARCIA, An Example of a New Kind of Algebraizability 173   [Abstract]   [PDF]
4. Norihiro KAMIDE, An Equivalence Between Sequent Calculi for Linear-Time Temporal Logic 187   [Abstract]   [PDF]
5. Haroldo G. BENATTI and Ruy J.G.B. de QUEIROZ, On the Descriptive Complexity of the Two Disjoint Paths Problem Over Undirected Graphs 195   [Abstract]   [PDF]

ABSTRACTS

1. A. V. FIGALLO, G. RAMON and S. SAAD, iH-Propositional Calculus Several authors have pointed out that the class of Nemitz's implicative semilattices are not the same as the class of Hilbert algebras with the property that for each pair of elements there exists its infimum, which we called Hilbert algebras with infimum. To the best of our knowledge, the first who realized this fact was Marsden in 1972. In a previous paper we have shown that the class of Hilbert algebras with infimum is equational and that the class of implicative semilattices is strictly contained in this variety. In this article, bearing in mind the relationship between the implicative semilattices and the {->,&}-fragment of the intuitionistic propositional calculus, we describe a Hilbert style {->,&}-propositional calculus weaker than the intuitionistic fragment and we show that the algebraic models of this new calculus are Hilbert algebras with infimum.

2. Tarek Sayed AHMED and Basim SAMIR, Neat Embeddings and Amalgamation We present a property of neat reducts commuting with forming subalgebras as a definability condition.

3. David Gracia GARCIA, An Example of a New Kind of Algebraizability We study the algebraization of a non-protoalgebraic logic defined by Dosen. This logic, despite of being non-protoalgebraic, has a theory which is algebraizable in a similar sense than a logic is, according to Blok and Pigozzi's notion.

4. Norihiro KAMIDE, An Equivalence Between Sequent Calculi for Linear-Time Temporal Logic The equivalence between Kawai's sequent calculus LTω and Baratella-Masini's 2-sequent calculus 2Sω is shown for the until-free linear-time temporal logic. By using this equivalence, an alternative proof of the cut-elimination theorems for LTω and 2Sω is obtained.

5. Haroldo G. BENATTI and Ruy J.G.B. de QUEIROZ, On the Descriptive Complexity of the Two Disjoint Paths Problem Over Undirected Graphs We are concerned with the problem of determining whether an undirected graph (V,E) with distinguished vertices s1, s2, t1, t2 has node-disjoint paths from s1 to t1 and s2 to t2. We show that it is definable in least fixed point logic, meaning that it can be answered in polynomial time the question whether (G,s1,s2,t1,t2) is a yes instance of the problem by iteratively evaluating a first-order formula on the graph until a fixed-point is reached.

BULLETIN OF THE SECTION OF LOGIC