Nested sequent calculi for conditional logics

  • Authors:
  • Régis Alenda;Nicola Olivetti;Gian Luca Pozzato

  • Affiliations:
  • Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LSIS UMR 7296, Marseille, France;Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LSIS UMR 7296, Marseille, France;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • JELIA'12 Proceedings of the 13th European conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Nested sequent calculi are a useful generalization of ordinary sequent calculi, where sequents are allowed to occur within sequents. Nested sequent calculi have been profitably employed in the area of (multi)-modal logic to obtain analytic and modular proof systems for these logics. In this work, we extend the realm of nested sequents by providing nested sequent calculi for the basic conditional logic CK and some of its significant extensions. The calculi are internal (a sequent can be directly translated into a formula), cut-free and analytic. Moreover, they can be used to design (sometimes optimal) decision procedures for the respective logics, and to obtain complexity upper bounds. Our calculi are an argument in favour of nested sequent calculi for modal logics and alike, showing their versatility and power.