Sahlqvist theorem for modal fixed point logic

  • Authors:
  • Nick Bezhanishvili;Ian Hodkinson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We define Sahlqvist fixed point formulas. By extending the technique of Sambin and Vaccaro we show that (1) for each Sahlqvist fixed point formula @f there exists an LFP-formula @g(@f), with no free first-order variable or predicate symbol, such that a descriptive @m-frame (an order-topological structure that admits topological interpretations of least fixed point operators as intersections of clopen pre-fixed points) validates @f iff @g(@f) is true in this structure, and (2) every modal fixed point logic axiomatized by a set @F of Sahlqvist fixed point formulas is sound and complete with respect to the class of descriptive @m-frames satisfying {@g(@f):@f@?@F}. We also give some concrete examples of Sahlqvist fixed point logics and classes of descriptive @m-frames for which these logics are sound and complete.