on 23-11-2012
Sérgio Marcelino, SQIG-IT
November 23, 2012, Friday, 16h15m.
Abstract: Products of Kripke frames are natural relational structures for modelling the interaction between different modal operators, representing notions such as time, space, knowledge, actions. The product construction shows up in various disguises in many logical formalisms, such as algebras of relations in algebraic logic, finite variable fragments of classical, intuitionistic and modal predicate logics, temporal-epistemic logics, dynamic topological logics, modal and temporal description logic.
It is known that n-products of modal logics have in general a very complex behaviour for n>2. For example, every logic between K×K×K and S5×S5×S5 is non finitely axiomatisable, and both its satisfiability and its finite-frame problem are undecidable. However, no such examples were known in the n=2 case. On the contrary, a big class of binary products of modal logics is known to be finitely axiomatisable, every 2-product of two Horn axiomatisable logics is in this class.
In this talk I will present some recent contributions to the understanding of this construction. In [1] the first examples of two-dimensional products of finitely axiomatisable modal logics that are not finitely axiomatisable were presented. If a modal logic L is finitely axiomatisable, then it is of course decidable whether a finite frame is a frame for L: one just has to check the finitely many axioms in it. If L is not finitely axiomatisable, then this might not be the case. In [2], is shown that the finite frame problem for the modal product logic K4.3×S5 is decidable. K4.3×S5 is outside the scope of both the known finite axiomatisation results, and the non-finite axiomatisability results of [1]. So, it is not known whether K4.3×S5 is finitely axiomatisable. We will discuss whether this result bring us any closer to either proving non-finite axiomatisability of K4.3×S5, or finding an explicit, possibly infinite, axiomatisation of it.
[1] A. Kurucz and S. Marcelino: Non-finitely axiomatisable two-dimensional modal logics, Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 77 (2012).
[2] A. Kurucz and S. Marcelino: Finite frames for K4.3×S5 are decidable, Advances in Modal Logic, Volume 9, College Publications (2012).
Room: 3.10, Mathematics
Support: SQIG/Instituto de Telecomunicações with support from FCT and FEDER namely by the FCT project PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2011.