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Modal Logics of Some Hereditarily Irresolvable Spaces

Logic 2023-11-08 v2

Abstract

A topological space is \emph{hereditarily kk-irresolvable} if none of its subspaces can be partitioned into kk dense subsets, We use this notion to provide a topological semantics for a sequence of modal logics whose nn-th member K4Cn\mathbb{C}_n is characterised by validity in transitive Kripke frames of circumference at most nn. We show that under the interpretation of the modality \Diamond as the derived set (of limit points) operation, K4Cn\mathbb{C}_n is characterised by validity in all spaces that are hereditarily n+1n+1-irresolvable and have the TD_D separation property. We also identify the extensions of K4Cn\mathbb{C}_n that result when the class of spaces involved is restricted to those that are weakly scattered, or crowded, or openly irresolvable, the latter meaning that every non-empty open subspace is 2-irresolvable. Finally we give a topological semantics for K4M, where M is the McKinsey axiom.

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@article{arxiv.2003.12946,
  title  = {Modal Logics of Some Hereditarily Irresolvable Spaces},
  author = {Robert Goldblatt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12946},
  year   = {2023}
}
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