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This is a survey of results on interpolation in propositional normal modal logics. Interpolation properties of these logics are closely connected with amalgamation properties of varieties of modal algebras. Therefore, the results on interpolation are also reformulated in terms of amalgamation.
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Maksimova, L. Amalgamation and interpolation in normal modal logics. Stud Logica 50, 457–471 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370682
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