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Provability logic is a modal logic for studying properties of provability predicates, and Interpretability logic for studying interpretability between logical theories. Their natural models are GL-models and Veltman models, for which the accessibility relation is well-founded. That’s why the usual counterexample showing the necessity of finite image property in Hennessy-Milner theorem (see [1]) doesn’t exist for them. However, we show that the analogous condition must still hold, by constructing two GL-models with worlds in them that are modally equivalent but not bisimilar, and showing how these GL-models can be converted to Veltman models with the same properties. In the process we develop some useful constructions: games on Veltman models, chains, and general method of transformation from GL-models/frames to Veltman ones.
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Čačić, V., Vrgoč, D. A Note on Bisimulation and Modal Equivalence in Provability Logic and Interpretability Logic. Stud Logica 101, 31–44 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-011-9366-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-011-9366-7