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Distribution-Free Modal Logics: Sahlqvist -- Van Benthem Correspondence

Published: March 16, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2503.12523v1

By: Chrysafis, Hartonas

Potential Business Impact:

Makes logic puzzles work with fewer rules.

Business Areas:
Optical Communication Hardware

We present an extension and generalization of Sahlqvist--Van Benthem correspondence to the case of distribution-free modal logic, with, or without negation and/or implication connectives. We follow a reductionist strategy, reducing the correspondence problem at hand to the same problem, but for a suitable system of sorted modal logic (the modal companion of the distribution-free system). The reduction, via a fully abstract translation, builds on duality between normal lattice expansions and sorted residuated frames with relations (a generalization of classical Kripke frames with relations). The approach is scalable and it can be generalized to other systems, with or without distribution, such as distributive modal logic, or substructural logics with, or without additional modal operators.

Country of Origin
🇬🇷 Greece

Page Count
30 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science