Tarski's theorem on intuitionistic logic, for polyhedra

DOI10.1016/J.APAL.2017.12.005MaRDI QIDQ1706265zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nick Bezhanishvili, Vincenzo Marra, Daniel K. McNeill, Andrea Pedrini

Publication date 21 March 2018

Published in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05094

triangulation polyhedron intuitionistic logic topological semantics Heyting algebra PL-topology finite model proprty

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11) Frames, locales (06D22) Subsystems of classical logic (including intuitionistic logic) (03B20) Heyting algebras (lattice-theoretic aspects) (06D20)

Abstract: In 1938, Tarski proved that a formula is not intuitionistically valid if, and only if, it has a counter-model in the Heyting algebra of open sets of some topological space. In fact, Tarski showed that any Euclidean space R^n with n >= 1 suffices, as does e.g. the Cantor space. In particular, intuitionistic logic cannot detect topological dimension in the frame of all open sets of a Euclidean space. By contrast, we consider the lattice of open subpolyhedra of a given compact polyhedron P subseteq R^n, prove that it is a locally finite Heyting subalgebra of the (non-locally-finite) algebra of all open sets of R^n, and show that intuitionistic logic is able to capture the topological dimension of P through the bounded-depth axiom schemata. Further, we show that intuitionistic logic is precisely the logic of formul{ae} valid in all Heyting algebras arising from polyhedra in this manner. Thus, our main theorem reconciles through polyhedral geometry two classical results: topological completeness in the style of Tarski, and Jaskowski's theorem that intuitionistic logic enjoys the finite model property. Several questions of interest remain open. E.g., what is the intermediate logic of all closed triangulable manifolds?

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