Coalgebraic modal logic: soundness, completeness and decidability of local consequence

  • Authors:
  • Dirk Pattinson

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, LMU München, Oettingenstraße 67, 80538 München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper studies finitary modal logics, interpreted over coalgebras for an endofunctor, and establishes soundness, completeness and decidability results. The logics are studied within the abstract framework of coalgebraic modal logic, which can be instantiated with arbitrary endofunctors on the category of sets. This is achieved through the use of predicate liftings, which generalise atomic propositions and modal operators from Kripke models to arbitrary coalgebras. Predicate liftings also allow us to use induction along the terminal sequence of the underlying endofunctor as a proof principle. This induction principle is systematically exploited to establish soundness, completeness and decidability of the logics. We believe that this induction principle also opens new ways for reasoning about modal logics: Our proof of completeness does not rely on a canonical model construction, and the proof of the finite model property does not use filtrations.