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Representation theory of logics: a categorial approach

Category Theory 2014-05-13 v1

Abstract

The major concern in the study of categories of logics is to describe condition for preservation, under the a method of combination of logics, of meta-logical properties. Our complementary approach to this field is study the "global" aspects of categories of logics in the vein of the categories \Ss,\Ls,\cAs\Ss, \Ls, \cA_s studied in \cite{AFLM3}. All these categories have good properties however the category of logics \cL\cL does not allow a good treatment of the "identity problem" for logics (\cite{Bez}): for instance, the presentations of "classical logics" (e.g., in the signature {¬,}\{\neg, \vee\} and {¬,}\{\neg',\rightarrow'\}) are not \Ls\Ls-isomorphic. In this work, we sketch a possible way to overcome this "defect" (and anothers) by a mathematical device: a representation theory of logics obtained from category theoretic aspects on (Blok-Pigozzi) algebraizable logics. In this setting we propose the study of (left and right) "Morita equivalence" of logics and variants. We introduce the concepts of logics (left/right)-(stably) -Morita-equivalent and show that the presentations of classical logics are stably Morita equivalent but classical logics and intuitionist logics are not stably-Morita-equivalent: they are only stably-Morita-adjointly related.

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@article{arxiv.1405.2429,
  title  = {Representation theory of logics: a categorial approach},
  author = {Darllan Conceição Pinto and Hugo Luiz Mariano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.2429},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages