Halo Semantics for Modal Logic

Yoàv Montacute

In nonstandard analysis the halo of a point in a topological space is the intersection of the nonstandard extensions of all its open neighbourhoods. We define a parametric family of modal operators from the halo by varying which elements of the nonstandard extension are admitted as witnesses, and identify four canonical instances. Two recover well-known modalities: the topological closure and the Cantor derivative. A third reduces to Kripke semantics over the specialisation preorder. The fourth, purely nonstandard instance admits only nonstandard witnesses. The Transfer Principle forces it to coincide with the ω-accumulation point operator, a classical topological notion not previously studied in modal logic. Unlike the Cantor derivative, the ω-accumulation operator maps arbitrary sets to closed sets without any separation axiom, yielding an ω-Cantor–Bendixson decomposition on all topological spaces. Axiom 4 holds universally, again without separation conditions. We prove that K4 is the complete logic over infinite spaces, and GL over infinite ω-scattered spaces.

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. 623–635.
Published: 29th June 2026.

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