English

Two variants of noncontingency operator

Logic 2019-06-10 v1

Abstract

By slightly adapting two equivalent semantics of noncontingency operator, we obtain two variants, \boxdot and \boxplus, with non-equivalent semantics. We show that on the class of models satisfying any of five basic properties (i.e. seriality, reflexivity, transitivity, symmetry, Euclidicity), the logic L()\mathcal{L}(\boxdot), which has \boxdot as the sole modal primitive, is less expressive than the logic L()\mathcal{L}(\boxplus), which has \boxplus as the sole modal primitive. We investigate the frame definability of both languages. We then axiomatize L()\mathcal{L}(\boxplus) and L()\mathcal{L}(\boxdot) over various classes of bimodal frames. Among other results, a notion of morphisms, called `\boxdot-morphisms', are provided to show the completeness of axiomatizations of L()\mathcal{L}(\boxdot) over serial frames and also over symmetric frames.

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@article{arxiv.1906.03091,
  title  = {Two variants of noncontingency operator},
  author = {Jie Fan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.03091},
  year   = {2019}
}

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27 pages

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