Pointed Modal Abelian Logic, Algebraically

Filip Jankovec
(Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Wolfgang Poiger
(Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences)

In this article, we investigate the pointed modal logic of reals. We first establish its relational (Kripke) semantics with bounded valuations in the Abelian l-group of real numbers with the distinguished negative constant -1. To study this logic algebraically, we introduce the variety of negatively pointed modal Abelian l-groups, in particular we focus on the strongly pointed members thereof. Constructing complex algebras and canonical frames, we establish a Truth Lemma connecting the relational and algebraic frameworks. Since finitary axiomatizations cannot fully capture the Kripke validities of the reals we introduce further algebraic constraints, in particular including an infinitary Archimedean-style rule. Finally, we prove a corresponding `infinitary algebraic completeness' result for pointed modal Abelian logic with respect to the variety of pointed modal Abelian l-groups.

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. 518–531.
Published: 29th June 2026.

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