Dynamic Probability Logics: Axiomatization & Definability
Abstract
We first study probabilistic dynamical systems from logical perspective. To this purpose, we introduce the finitary dynamic probability logic} (), as well as its infinitary extension . Both these logics extend the (modal) probability logic () by adding a temporal-like operator (denoted as dynamic operator) which describes the dynamic part of the system. We subsequently provide Hilbert-style axiomatizations for both and . We show that while the proposed axiomatization for is strongly complete, the axiomatization for the infinitary counterpart supplies strong completeness for each countable fragment of . Secondly, our research focuses on the (frame) definability of important properties of probabilistic dynamical systems such as measure-preserving, ergodicity and mixing within and . Furthermore, we consider the infinitary probability logic (probability logic with initial probability distribution) by disregarding the dynamic operator. This logic studies {\em Markov processes with initial distribution}, i.e. mathematical structures of the form where is a measurable space, is a Markov kernel and is a -additive probability measure. We prove that many natural stochastic properties of Markov processes such as stationary, invariance, irreducibility and recurrence are -definable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.07235,
title = {Dynamic Probability Logics: Axiomatization & Definability},
author = {Somayeh Chopoghloo and Massoud Pourmahdian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07235},
year = {2024}
}