Topological Logics of Path-Reachability

The topological semantics of modal logic has been an active area of research ever since their introduction in the 1940s, with attention shifting in recent years from standard unimodal logic to more expressive frameworks.In particular, an Until-like path-reachability modality has recently been studied in Bezhanishvili et al. (2024) in polyhedral semantics; this paper investigates its topological counterpart.Focusing on the language combining said modality with the classical Cantor derivative modality, we exhibit an axiomatic system sound and complete both for the class of T 1 topologies and for the class of all metric spaces, and establish its decidability.We also axiomatize the logic of all topological models in a weaker language obtained by substituting the closure modality for the Cantor derivative.To prove our results, we introduce an equivalent neighborhood-like semantics allowing for the finite model property.

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Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
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2026-06-28
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https://doi.org/10.4204/eptcs.447.22
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Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
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Topological Logics of Path-Reachability

Aleksandr Gagarin, David Fernández-Duque
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
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Topological Logics of Path-Reachability

Aleksandr Gagarin, David Fernández-Duque
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The topological semantics of modal logic has been an active area of research ever since their introduction in the 1940s, with attention shifting in recent years from standard unimodal logic to more expressive frameworks.In particular, an Until-like path-reachability modality has recently been studied in Bezhanishvili et al. (2024) in polyhedral semantics; this paper investigates its topological counterpart.Focusing on the language combining said modality with the classical Cantor derivative modality, we exhibit an axiomatic system sound and complete both for the class of T 1 topologies and for the class of all metric spaces, and establish its decidability.We also axiomatize the logic of all topological models in a weaker language obtained by substituting the closure modality for the Cantor derivative.To prove our results, we introduce an equivalent neighborhood-like semantics allowing for the finite model property.

Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer ScienceVol. 447
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