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Space and time via Topological and Tense cylindric algebras

Logic 2020-06-08 v1

Abstract

Let α\alpha be an arbritary ordinal, and 2<n<ω2<n<\omega. In \cite{3} accepted for publication in Quaestiones Mathematicae, we studied using algebraic logic, interpolation, amalgamation using α\alpha many variables for topological logic with α\alpha many variables briefly TopLα\sf TopL_{\alpha}. This is a sequel to \cite{3}; the second part on modal cylindric algebras, where we study algebraically other properties of TopLα\sf TopL_{\alpha}. Modal cylindric algebras are cylindric algebras of infinite dimension expanded with unary modalities inheriting their semantics from a unimodal logic L\sf L such as K5\sf K5 or S4\sf S4. Using the methodology of algebraic logic, we study topological (when L=S4\sf L=S4), in symbols TCAα\sf TCA_{\alpha}. We study completeness and omitting types OTT\sf OTTs for TopLω\sf TopL_{\omega} and TenLω\sf TenL_{\omega}, by proving several representability results for locally finite such algebras. Furthermore, we study the notion of atom-canonicity for both TCAn{\sf TCA}_{n} and TenLn{\sf TenL}_n, a well known persistence property in modal logic, in connection to OTT\sf OTT for TopLn{\sf TopL}_n and TeLCAn{\sf TeLCA}_n, respectively. We study representability, omitting types, interpolation and complexity isssues (such as undecidability) for topological cylindric algebras. In a sequel to this paper, we introduce temporal cyindric algebras and point out the way how to amalgamate algebras of space (topological algebars) and algebras of time (temporal algebras) forming topological-temporal cylindric algebras that lend themselves to encompassing spacetime gemetries, in a purely algebraic manner.

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@article{arxiv.2006.03421,
  title  = {Space and time via Topological and Tense cylindric algebras},
  author = {Tarek Sayed Ahmed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.03421},
  year   = {2020}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1912.12114, arXiv:1408.3282, arXiv:1608.03513