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MODAL LOGICS OF METRIC SPACES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2014

GURAM BEZHANISHVILI ,
DAVID GABELAIA  and
JOEL LUCERO-BRYAN
GURAM BEZHANISHVILI*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University
DAVID GABELAIA*
Affiliation:
A. Razmadze Mathematical Institute, Tbilisi State University
JOEL LUCERO-BRYAN*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Sciences, Khalifa University
*
*DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY, LAS CRUCES NM 88003, USA E-mail:guram@math.nmsu.edu
†A. RAZMADZE MATHEMATICAL INSTITUTE, TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY, 6 TAMARASHVILI STR., TBILISI 0177, GEORGIA E-mail:gabelaia@gmail.com
‡DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCES, KHALIFA UNIVERSITY, ABU DHABI, UAE E-mail:joel.lucero-bryan@kustar.ac.ae
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Abstract

It is a classic result (McKinsey & Tarski, 1944; Rasiowa & Sikorski, 1963) that if we interpret modal diamond as topological closure, then the modal logic of any dense-in-itself metric space is the well-known modal system S4. In this paper, as a natural follow-up, we study the modal logic of an arbitrary metric space. Our main result establishes that modal logics arising from metric spaces form the following chain which is order-isomorphic (with respect to the ⊃ relation) to the ordinal ω + 3:

$S4.Gr{z_1} \supset S4.Gr{z_2} \supset S4.Gr{z_3} \supset \cdots \,S4.Grz \supset S4.1 \supset S4.$

It follows that the modal logic of an arbitrary metric space is finitely axiomatizable, has the finite model property, and hence is decidable.

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Research Article
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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 178 - 191
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2014 

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