Uniform Realizability Interpretations

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Authors: Ulrich Berger, Paulo Roberto Oliva
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Abstract

This work introduces a novel framework of uniform realizability that unifies and generalizes various realizability interpretations of logic, particularly focussing on the treatment of atomic formulas and quantifiers. Traditional realizability interpretations (such as Kleene's number realizability) require explicit witnesses for existential quantifiers. In contrast, newer approaches, such as in the first author's uniform Heyting arithmetic, Herbrand realizability of non-standard arithmetic, or in the "classical" realizability of arithmetic, (some) quantifiers, are treated uniformly. The proposed notion of uniform realizability abstracts these differences, parametrising the interpretation by a given treatment of atomic formulas, accounting for both classical and modern variants. The approach is illustrated using several realizability interpretations of Heyting arithmetic.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Computability Logic AI Algorithms programming and type systems Advanced Algebra and Logic

Publication details

Journal / source
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Volume
441
Pages
46–61
Publication date
3 March 2026
Language
EN