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    Modal multilattice logics with Tarski, Kuratowski, and Halmos operators

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    In this paper, we consider modal multilattices with Tarski, Kuratowski, and Halmos closure and interior operators as well as the corresponding logics which are multilattice versions of the modal logics MNT4, S4, and S5, respectively. The former modal multilattice logic is a new one. The latter two modal multilattice logics have been already mentioned in the literature, but algebraic completeness results have not been established for them before. We present a multilattice version of MNT4 in a form of a sequent calculus and prove the algebraic and neighbourhood completeness theorems for it. We extend the algebraic completeness result for the multilattice versions of S4 and S5 as well

    Algebraic Quantum Mechanics and Pregeometry

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    We discuss the relation between the q-number approach to quantum mechanics suggested by Dirac and the notion of "pregeometry" introduced by Wheeler. By associating the q-numbers with the elements of an algebra and regarding the primitive idempotents as "generalized points" we suggest an approach that may make it possible to dispense with an a priori given space manifold. In this approach the algebra itself would carry the symmetries of translation, rotation, etc. Our suggestion is illustrated in a preliminary way by using a particular generalized Clifford algebra proposed originally by Weyl, which approaches the ordinary Heisenberg algebra a suitable limit. We thus obtain a certain insight into how quantum mechanics may be regarded as a purely algebraic theory, provided that we further introduce a new set of "neighbourhood operators", which remove an important kind of arbitrariness that has thus far been present in the attempt to treat quantum mechanics solely in terms of a Heisenberg algebra

    Algebraic totality, towards completeness

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    Finiteness spaces constitute a categorical model of Linear Logic (LL) whose objects can be seen as linearly topologised spaces, (a class of topological vector spaces introduced by Lefschetz in 1942) and morphisms as continuous linear maps. First, we recall definitions of finiteness spaces and describe their basic properties deduced from the general theory of linearly topologised spaces. Then we give an interpretation of LL based on linear algebra. Second, thanks to separation properties, we can introduce an algebraic notion of totality candidate in the framework of linearly topologised spaces: a totality candidate is a closed affine subspace which does not contain 0. We show that finiteness spaces with totality candidates constitute a model of classical LL. Finally, we give a barycentric simply typed lambda-calculus, with booleans B{\mathcal{B}} and a conditional operator, which can be interpreted in this model. We prove completeness at type Bn→B{\mathcal{B}}^n\to{\mathcal{B}} for every n by an algebraic method

    Generalized Vietoris Bisimulations

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    We introduce and study bisimulations for coalgebras on Stone spaces [14]. Our notion of bisimulation is sound and complete for behavioural equivalence, and generalizes Vietoris bisimulations [4]. The main result of our paper is that bisimulation for a Stone\mathbf{Stone} coalgebra is the topological closure of bisimulation for the underlying Set\mathbf{Set} coalgebra

    Conditionals and modularity in general logics

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    In this work in progress, we discuss independence and interpolation and related topics for classical, modal, and non-monotonic logics

    Natural models of theories of green points

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    We explicitly present expansions of the complex field which are models of the theories of green points in the multiplicative group case and in the case of an elliptic curve without complex multiplication defined over R\mathbb{R}. In fact, in both cases we give families of structures depending on parameters and prove that they are all models of the theories, provided certain instances of Schanuel's conjecture or an analogous conjecture for the exponential map of the elliptic curve hold. In the multiplicative group case, however, the results are unconditional for generic choices of the parameters
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