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The formal system of intuitionistic epistemic logic IEL was proposed by S. Artemov and T. Protopopescu. It provides the formal foundation for the study of knowledge from an intuitionistic point of view based on Brouwer-Hayting-Kolmogorov semantics of intuitionism. We construct a cut-free sequent calculus for IEL and establish that polynomial space is sufficient for the proof search in it. We prove that IEL is PSPACE-complete.
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For example, it can be some trusted database that stores true facts without proofs or some zero-knowledge proof.
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Sequents in [4] are classical (multiconclusion) and contain special labels denoting worlds of a Kripke structure, so this formalization can be considered as a classical formulation of the theory of forcing relation in a Kripke structure that corresponds to the intuitionistic bimodal epistemic logic.
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This method was introduced by Kleene in the construction of his G3 systems, see [6].
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We are grateful to Sergey Artemov for inspiring discussions of intuitionistic epistemic logic. We thank the anonymous referees for their comments.
The research described in this paper was partially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 14-01-00127).
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Krupski, V.N., Yatmanov, A. (2016). Sequent Calculus for Intuitionistic Epistemic Logic IEL. In: Artemov, S., Nerode, A. (eds) Logical Foundations of Computer Science. LFCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27683-0_14
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