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InfinitaryLogic.ModelTheory.MalitzInterpolation

Malitz interpolation for L_ω₁ω: public facade #

The stable entry point for the project's Malitz-interpolation results (issue #15). Importing this file — or any bundle containing it, including the default import InfinitaryLogic — exposes:

What exactly is claimed #

This is López–Escobar / Malitz Theorem 4.5 in the function-free case: the interpolant can be taken in the same quantifier class as the consequent. "Universal" is the signed occurrence notion IsUniversal = universalSigned true: every quantifier occurrence is a positive . Countable conjunctions and disjunctions are not counted as quantifiers, which is what makes this the ∀₁ hierarchy rather than a Π-hierarchy.

How it is proved #

Not by a proof calculus. The engine is a side-labelled budgeted pair — Feferman's split-sequent invariant in semantic form — whose separators carry a shared-vocabulary condition, a shared-constant condition, and two quantifier permissions. The interpolant's universality is paid for by the budget: the right root ψ.not carries no positive universal occurrence exactly when ψ is universal, so the separator can contain no existential occurrence.

See Methods/Interpolation/BudgetedPair.lean for the certificate and its closure gates.