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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2025
Glivenko’s theorem says that classical provability of a propositional formula entails intuitionistic provability of the double negation of that formula. This stood right at the beginning of the success story of negative translations, indeed mainly designed for converting classically derivable formulae into intuitionistically derivable ones. We now generalise this approach: simultaneously from double negation to an arbitrary nucleus; from provability in a calculus to an inductively generated abstract consequence relation; and from propositional logic to any set of objects whatsoever. In particular, we give sharp criteria for the generalisation of classical logic to be a conservative extension of the one of intuitionistic logic with double negation.
This note grew out from a chapter of the first author’s doctoral thesis [33], and is a revised and extended version of a conference paper [35]. As compared to the latter, the main amendments include: the study of j-homogeneous functions and j-translations; a more informative statement of the Gödel conservation theorem; the new Kolmogorov conservation theorem and its corollary, the Kuroda conservation theorem; and an application to lax logic.