Unification of Modal Logic via Topological Categories

Lingyuan Ye

In this paper we provide a unifying description of different types of semantics of modal logic found in the literature via the framework of topological categories. In the style of categorical logic, we establish an exact correspondence between various syntactic extensions of modal logic on one hand, including modal dependence, group agent structures, and logical dynamic, and semantic structures in topological categories on the other hand. This framework provides us a uniform treatment of interpreting these syntactic extensions in all different types of semantics of modal logic, and it deepens our conceptual understanding of the abstract structure of modal logic.

In Jade Master and Martha Lewis: Proceedings Fifth International Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT 2022), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 18-22 July 2022, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 380, pp. 383–399.
This version is a substantial revision of https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.06596v1, where we state more clearly the whole project and include more topics, meanwhile making it more succinct.
Published: 7th August 2023.

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