English

The Baire closure and its logic

Logic 2024-01-02 v2

Abstract

The Baire algebra of a topological space XX is the quotient of the algebra of all subsets of XX modulo the meager sets. We show that this Boolean algebra can be endowed with a natural closure operator, resulting in a closure algebra which we denote Baire(X){\bf Baire}(X). We identify the modal logic of such algebras to be the well-known system S5\sf S5, and prove soundness and strong completeness for the cases where XX is crowded and either completely metrizable and continuum-sized or locally compact Hausdorff. We also show that every extension of S5\sf S5 is the modal logic of a subalgebra of Baire(X){\bf Baire}(X), and that soundness and strong completeness also holds in the language with the universal modality.

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@article{arxiv.2102.03564,
  title  = {The Baire closure and its logic},
  author = {Guram Bezhanishvili and David Fernández-Duque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03564},
  year   = {2024}
}
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