Ultrafilter Extensions for Veltman Semantics

Fèlix Frigola González
(University of Barcelona)
Joost J. Joosten
(University of Barcelona)
Vicent Navarro Arroyo
(Technical University of València; University of Barcelona)
Cosimo Perini Brogi
(IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)

In this paper, we present a first-order frame condition for interpretability logic and show that the condition is not modally definable. Yet, the frame condition holds both on ILM and on ILP frames and, hence, is of potential importance for the long-standing open problem about the interpretability logic of all reasonable arithmetical theories. In the light of the Goldblatt-Thomason Theorem, the modally inexpressible frame condition serves as motivation to develop ultrafilter extensions for interpretability logic. We develop the necessary algebraic tools to define these ultrafilter extensions and prove the main properties about both the tools and the ultrafilter extensions.

In Marta Bílková, Malvin Gattinger, Iris van der Giessen, Marianna Girlando and Yanjing Wang: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Advances in Modal Logic (AiML 2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29-06-2026, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 447, pp. 374–390.
Published: 29th June 2026.

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