On modal logics of model-theoretic relations

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Abstract: Given a class mathcalC of models, a binary relation mathcalR between models, and a model-theoretic language L, we consider the modal logic and the modal algebra of the theory of mathcalC in L where the modal operator is interpreted via mathcalR. We discuss how modal theories of mathcalC and mathcalR depend on the model-theoretic language, their Kripke completeness, and expressibility of the modality inside L. We calculate such theories for the submodel and the quotient relations. We prove a downward L"owenheim--Skolem theorem for first-order language expanded with the modal operator for the extension relation between models.


In this paper, modal logic and the modal algebra of the theory of some class \(\mathcal C\) of models are considered, the modal operator is interpreted as a relation \(\mathcal R\) on \(\mathcal C\). The language \(L\) of the theory is a usual model theoretic language which includes the standard first-order language, and satisfiability in \(L\) is asumed to be preserved under isomorphisms. By a modal logic is meant a normal propositional unimodal logic. The authors discuss how modal theories of \((\mathcal{C,R})\) depend on \(L\), the Kripke completeness of these theories, and expressibility of the modality in \(L\); they also describe the modal theories for the submodel and the quotient relations. For a first-order modal logic expanded with a modal operator for the extension relation betwen models, a downward Löwenheim-Skolem theorem is proved.











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