Bounded Modal Logic

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Main Authors: Murase, Yuito, Maniwa, Akinori
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Published: 2026
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author Murase, Yuito
Maniwa, Akinori
author_facet Murase, Yuito
Maniwa, Akinori
contents Under the Curry--Howard isomorphism, the syntactic structure of programs can be modeled using birelational Kripke structures equipped with intuitionistic and modal relations. Intuitionistic relations capture scoping through persistence, reflecting the availability of resources from outer scopes, while modal relations model resource isolation introduced for various purposes. Traditional modal languages, however, describe only modal transitions and thus provide limited support for expressing fine-grained control over resource availability. Motivated by this limitation, we introduce \emph{Bounded Modal Logic (\textbf{BML})}, an experimental extension of constructive modal logic whose language explicitly accounts for both intuitionistic and modal transitions. We present a natural-deduction proof system and a Kripke semantics for \textbf{BML}, together with a Curry--Howard interpretation via a corresponding typed lambda-calculus. We establish metatheoretic properties of the calculus, showing that \textbf{BML} forms a well-disciplined logical system. This provides theoretical support for our proposed perspective on fine-grained resource control in programming languages.
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Murase, Yuito
Maniwa, Akinori
Logic in Computer Science
D.3.1; F.3.3
Under the Curry--Howard isomorphism, the syntactic structure of programs can be modeled using birelational Kripke structures equipped with intuitionistic and modal relations. Intuitionistic relations capture scoping through persistence, reflecting the availability of resources from outer scopes, while modal relations model resource isolation introduced for various purposes. Traditional modal languages, however, describe only modal transitions and thus provide limited support for expressing fine-grained control over resource availability. Motivated by this limitation, we introduce \emph{Bounded Modal Logic (\textbf{BML})}, an experimental extension of constructive modal logic whose language explicitly accounts for both intuitionistic and modal transitions. We present a natural-deduction proof system and a Kripke semantics for \textbf{BML}, together with a Curry--Howard interpretation via a corresponding typed lambda-calculus. We establish metatheoretic properties of the calculus, showing that \textbf{BML} forms a well-disciplined logical system. This provides theoretical support for our proposed perspective on fine-grained resource control in programming languages.
title Bounded Modal Logic
topic Logic in Computer Science
D.3.1; F.3.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09462