On strictly arithmetical completeness in logics of programs

Abstract

We introduce and discuss a notion of strictly arithmetical completeness related to relative completeness of Cook (1978) and arithmetical completeness of Harel (1978). We present a powerful technique of obtaining strictly arithmetical axiomatizations of logics of programs. Given a model-theoretic semantics of a logic and a set of formulae defining (in a metalanguage) its nonclassical connectives, we automatically derive strictly arithmetically complete and sound proof systems for this logic. As examples of application of the technique we obtain new axiomatizations of algorithmic logic, (concurrent) dynamic logic and temporal logic.