English

Comonadic semantics for hybrid logic and bounded fragments

Logic in Computer Science 2021-10-20 v1 Category Theory

Abstract

In recent work, comonads and associated structures have been used to analyse a range of important notions in finite model theory, descriptive complexity and combinatorics. We extend this analysis to Hybrid logic, a widely-studied extension of basic modal logic, which corresponds to the bounded fragment of first-order logic. In addition to characterising the various resource-indexed equivalences induced by Hybrid logic and the bounded fragment, and the associated combinatorial decompositions of structures, we also give model-theoretic characterisations of bounded formulas in terms of invariance under generated substructures, in both the finite and infinite cases.

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@article{arxiv.2110.09844,
  title  = {Comonadic semantics for hybrid logic and bounded fragments},
  author = {Samson Abramsky and Dan Marsden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09844},
  year   = {2021}
}
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