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Dynamic Probability Logics: Axiomatization & Definability

Logic 2024-01-17 v1

Abstract

We first study probabilistic dynamical systems from logical perspective. To this purpose, we introduce the finitary dynamic probability logic} (DPL\mathsf{DPL}), as well as its infinitary extension DPLω1 ⁣\mathsf{DPL}_{\omega_1}\!. Both these logics extend the (modal) probability logic (PL\mathsf{PL}) by adding a temporal-like operator \bigcirc (denoted as dynamic operator) which describes the dynamic part of the system. We subsequently provide Hilbert-style axiomatizations for both DPL\mathsf{DPL} and DPLω1 ⁣\mathsf{DPL}_{\omega_1}\!. We show that while the proposed axiomatization for DPL\mathsf{DPL} is strongly complete, the axiomatization for the infinitary counterpart supplies strong completeness for each countable fragment A\mathbb{A} of DPLω1 ⁣\mathsf{DPL}_{\omega_1}\!. Secondly, our research focuses on the (frame) definability of important properties of probabilistic dynamical systems such as measure-preserving, ergodicity and mixing within DPL\mathsf{DPL} and DPLω1\mathsf{DPL}_{\omega_1}. Furthermore, we consider the infinitary probability logic InPLω1\mathsf{InPL}_{\omega_1} (probability logic with initial probability distribution) by disregarding the dynamic operator. This logic studies {\em Markov processes with initial distribution}, i.e. mathematical structures of the form Ω,A,T,π\langle \Omega, \mathcal{A}, T, \pi\rangle where Ω,A\langle \Omega, \mathcal{A}\rangle is a measurable space, T:Ω×A[0,1]T: \Omega\times \mathcal{A}\to [0, 1] is a Markov kernel and π:A[0,1]\pi: \mathcal{A}\to [0, 1] is a σ\sigma-additive probability measure. We prove that many natural stochastic properties of Markov processes such as stationary, invariance, irreducibility and recurrence are InPLω1\mathsf{InPL}_{\omega_1}-definable.

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@article{arxiv.2401.07235,
  title  = {Dynamic Probability Logics: Axiomatization & Definability},
  author = {Somayeh Chopoghloo and Massoud Pourmahdian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07235},
  year   = {2024}
}
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