We give a technique to construct a final coalgebra in which each element is a set of formulas of modal logic. The technique works for both the finite and the countable powerset functors. Starting with an injectively structured, corecursive algebra, we coinductively obtain a suitable subalgebra called the "co-founded part". We see—first with an example, and then in the general setting of modal logic on a dual adjunction—that modal theories form an injectively structured, corecursive algebra, so that this construction may be applied. We also obtain an initial algebra in a similar way. We generalize the framework beyond Set to categories equipped with a suitable factorization system, and look at the examples of Poset and Set-op .
@InProceedings{levy:LIPIcs.CALCO.2015.221, author = {Levy, Paul Blain}, title = {{Final Coalgebras from Corecursive Algebras}}, booktitle = {6th Conference on Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science (CALCO 2015)}, pages = {221--237}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-939897-84-2}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2015}, volume = {35}, editor = {Moss, Lawrence S. and Sobocinski, Pawel}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2015.221}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-55365}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CALCO.2015.221}, annote = {Keywords: coalgebra, modal logic, bisimulation, category theory, factorization system} }
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