NEIGHBOURHOOD STRUCTURES: BISIMILARITY AND BASIC MODEL THEORY
NEIGHBOURHOOD STRUCTURES: BISIMILARITY AND BASIC MODEL THEORY
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DOI:
10.2168/lmcs-5(2:2)2009
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发表时间:
2009-01-01
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0.6
通讯作者:
Pacuit, Eric
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作者:
Hansen, Helle Hvid;Kupke, Clemens;Pacuit, Eric
Neighbourhood structures are the standard semantic tool used to reason about non-normal modal logics. The logic of all neighbourhood models is called classical modal logic. In coalgebraic terms, a neighbourhood frame is a coalgebra for the contravariant powerset functor composed with itself, denoted by 2(2). We use this coalgebraic modelling to derive notions of equivalence between neighbourhood structures. 2(2)-bisimilarity and behavioural equivalence are well known coalgebraic concepts, and they are distinct, since 2(2) does not preserve weak pullbacks. We introduce a third, intermediate notion whose witnessing relations we call precocongruences (based on pushouts). We give back-and-forth style characterisations for 2(2)-bisimulations and precocongruences, we show that on a single coalgebra, precocongruences capture behavioural equivalence, and that between neighbourhood structures, precocongruences are a better approximation of behavioural equivalence than 2(2)-bisimulations. We also introduce a notion of modal saturation for neighbourhood models, and investigate its relationship with definability and image-finiteness. We prove a Hennessy-Milner theorem for modally saturated and for image-finite neighbourhood models. Our main results are an analogue of Van Benthem's characterisation theorem and a model-theoretic proof of Craig interpolation for classical modal