Pretabular Tense Logics over S4t
Abstract
A logic is called tabular if it is the logic of some finite frame and is pretabular if it is not tabular while all of its proper consistent extensions are tabular. In this work, we study pretabular tense logics in the lattice of all extensions of , tense . For all , we define the tense logic with respectively bounded width, depth and z-degree. We give a full characterization of the set of all pretabular logics extending , which entails that there are exactly 5 pretabular logics in . Moreover, by providing a full characterization of and proving that , we show the anti-dichotomy theorem for cardinality of pretabular extensions in : for all cardinal such that or , for some . It follows that , which answers an open problem concerning the cardinality of raised by Rautenberg in 1979.
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@article{arxiv.2412.19558,
title = {Pretabular Tense Logics over S4t},
author = {Qian Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.19558},
year = {2025}
}
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36 pages, 10 figures