Dynamic epistemic logic in update logic

Abstract

We show that dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) is a substructural logic and that it is an extension of the update logic introduced in the companion article [12]. We identify axioms and inference rules that completely characterize the DEL product update, and we provide a sequent calculus for DEL. Finally, we show that DEL with a finite number of atomic events is as expressive as epistemic logic. In parallel, we provide a sequent calculus for update logic which turns out to be a generalization of the non-associative Lambek calculus.