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THE LATTICE OF SUPER-BELNAP LOGICS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2021

ADAM PŘENOSIL*
Affiliation:
INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE CZECH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES POD VODÁRENSKOU VĚŽÍ 271/1 PRAGUE, CZECHIA URL: https://sites.google.com/site/adamprenosil
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Abstract

We study the lattice of extensions of four-valued Belnap–Dunn logic, called super-Belnap logics by analogy with superintuitionistic logics. We describe the global structure of this lattice by splitting it into several subintervals, and prove some new completeness theorems for super-Belnap logics. The crucial technical tool for this purpose will be the so-called antiaxiomatic (or explosive) part operator. The antiaxiomatic (or explosive) extensions of Belnap–Dunn logic turn out to be of particular interest owing to their connection to graph theory: the lattice of finitary antiaxiomatic extensions of Belnap–Dunn logic is isomorphic to the lattice of upsets in the homomorphism order on finite graphs (with loops allowed). In particular, there is a continuum of finitary super-Belnap logics. Moreover, a non-finitary super-Belnap logic can be constructed with the help of this isomorphism. As algebraic corollaries we obtain the existence of a continuum of antivarieties of De Morgan algebras and the existence of a prevariety of De Morgan algebras which is not a quasivariety.

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Association for Symbolic Logic
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Fig. 1 Some important models of $\mathcal {B}\mathcal {D}$.

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Fig. 2 Some super-Belnap logics.

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Fig. 3 The matrix $\mathbb {ETL}_{\boldsymbol {8}}$.

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Fig. 4 The free two-generated De Morgan algebra modulo $b \leq a$ and $a \leq {-} a \vee b$.

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Fig. 5 The free two-generated De Morgan algebra modulo $a \leq {-} a$ and $b \leq {-} b$.

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Fig. 6 Part of the lattice of super-Belnap logics.

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Fig. 7 The frame $P(G_{2}, K_{2}, 1)$.