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see <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/frame'>frame</a>. The usage here is analogous to <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/Kripke+frame'>Kripke frames</a> in <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/modal+logic'>modal logic</a>.</em></p> <h2 id='idea'>Idea</h2> <p>A <strong>ternary frame</strong> is a way of presenting a model for a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/substructural+logic'>substructural logic</a> (such as <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/linear+logic'>linear logic</a> and <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/relevance+logic'>relevant logic</a>) in terms of a set of “worlds” or “states of information” and a ternary <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/relation'>relation</a>.</p> <p>The construction generalizes from <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/partial+order'>posets</a> to <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/category'>categories</a> using the <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/Day+convolution'>Day convolution</a> of a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/promonoidal+category'>promonoidal category</a> (<a href='#dayconvolution'>see below</a>), or a “promagmal category” in the weakest version.</p> <h2 id='definition'>Definition</h2> <p>A <strong>ternary frame</strong> is a set <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_1' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> together with a ternary relation <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_2' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> on <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_3' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>; we write <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_4' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> when <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_5' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> holds of three elements <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_6' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x,y,z\in A</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>We may additionally ask that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_7' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> have a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/partial+order'>partial ordering</a>; in this case we demand the compatibility condition that if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_8' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_9' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>′</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x'\le x</annotation></semantics></math>, <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_10' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>′</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y'\le y</annotation></semantics></math>, and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_11' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>′</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z\le z'</annotation></semantics></math>, then also <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_12' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mo>′</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>′</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>′</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x' y' z'</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <h2 id='modeling_substructural_logic'>Modeling substructural logic</h2> <p>We can model <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/logic'>logic</a> using a ternary frame with a “forcing” or “satisfaction” relation between points of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_13' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> and formulas. We begin by assigning to each <span class='newWikiWord'>atomic formula<a href='/nlab/new/atomic+formula'>?</a></span> a set of points of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_14' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> which satisfy it. If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_15' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> has a partial order, as above, then we ask each of these sets to be up-closed.</p> <p>The <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/logical+connective'>logical connectives</a> can then be defined inductively by clauses such as the following:</p> <ul> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_16' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mi>&</mi><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash P \& Q</annotation></semantics></math> (the negative <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/conjunction'>conjunction</a>) if and only if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_17' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_18' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\Vdash Q</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_19' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊕</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash P \oplus Q</annotation></semantics></math> (the positive <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/disjunction'>disjunction</a>) if and only if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_20' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math> or <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_21' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\Vdash Q</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_22' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>0</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash \mathbf{0}</annotation></semantics></math> (the positive <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/falsehood'>falsity</a>) never.</li> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_23' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo>⊤</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash \top</annotation></semantics></math> (the negative <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/true+proposition'>truth</a>) always.</li> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_24' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊗</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash P \otimes Q</annotation></semantics></math> (the positive conjunction) if and only if there exist <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_25' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y,z</annotation></semantics></math> such that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_26' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R y z x</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_27' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y\Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_28' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z\Vdash Q</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_29' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash P \multimap Q</annotation></semantics></math> (the one-sided linear implication) if and only if for all <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_30' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y,z</annotation></semantics></math>, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_31' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_32' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y\Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math>, then <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_33' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z\Vdash Q</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_34' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mo>′</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash P \multimap' Q</annotation></semantics></math> (the dual linear implication) if and only if for all <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_35' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y,z</annotation></semantics></math>, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_36' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_37' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z\Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math>, then <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_38' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y\Vdash Q</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <p>The logic obtained thereby will generally be <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/substructural+logic'>substructural</a>: it need not satisfy the structural rules like <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/weakening+rule'>weakening</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/contraction+rule'>contraction</a>, <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/exchange+rule'>exchange</a> or even associativity and unit for the tensor product. On this page, we have used the notation for substructural connectives from <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/linear+logic'>linear logic</a>.</p> <h2 id='additional_structure'>Additional structure</h2> <p>We can impose properties or structure on the ternary frame to affect the logic. For instance, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_39' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> implies <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_40' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R y x z</annotation></semantics></math>, then the logic we obtain will satisfy the exchange rule.</p> <p>We also need additional structure in order to model positive truth, negative falsity, negative disjunction, and negation.</p> <h3 id='truth_sets'>Truth sets</h3> <p>A <strong>truth set</strong> in an ordered ternary frame is a subset <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_41' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi><mo>⊆</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T\subseteq A</annotation></semantics></math> such that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_42' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\le y</annotation></semantics></math> if and only if there exists a <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_43' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>t\in T</annotation></semantics></math> with <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_44' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>t</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R t x y</annotation></semantics></math>, and if and only if there exists an <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_45' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>s\in T</annotation></semantics></math> with <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_46' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>s</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x s y</annotation></semantics></math>. (If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_47' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> is commutative, as above, then the two conditions are equivalent.) Alternatively, given an unordered ternary frame <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_48' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> and a subset <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_49' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T</annotation></semantics></math>, we could <em>define</em> <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_50' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\le y</annotation></semantics></math> in this way, and then require as a property of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_51' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T</annotation></semantics></math> that the resulting relation is a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/partial+order'>partial order</a>.</p> <p>If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_52' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T</annotation></semantics></math> is a truth set, then it makes sense to define</p> <ul> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_53' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>1</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash \mathbf{1}</annotation></semantics></math> (the positive truth) if and only if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_54' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\in T</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <h3 id='compatibility_relations'>Compatibility relations</h3> <p>One way to model negation (and thereby obtain negative falsity <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_55' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊥</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\bot</annotation></semantics></math> and negative disjunction <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_56' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⅋</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\parr</annotation></semantics></math> by duality from positive truth <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_57' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>1</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{1}</annotation></semantics></math> and positive conjunction <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_58' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊗</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\otimes</annotation></semantics></math>) is with a <strong>compatibility relation</strong>, which is just a binary relation <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_59' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>C</annotation></semantics></math>. If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_60' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> has a partial order, we demand additionally that if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_61' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x C y</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_62' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>′</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x'\le x</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_63' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>′</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y\le y'</annotation></semantics></math>, then <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_64' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>′</mo><mi>C</mi><mi>y</mi><mo>′</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x' C y'</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>Given such a <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_65' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>C</annotation></semantics></math>, we define</p> <ul> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_66' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo>¬</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash \neg P</annotation></semantics></math> if and only if for all <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_67' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y</annotation></semantics></math>, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_68' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x C y</annotation></semantics></math> then not <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_69' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y\Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <h3 id='falsity_sets'>Falsity sets</h3> <p>Negation can alternatively be modeled using a <em>false set</em>. Suppose given a subset <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_70' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mo>⊆</mo><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>F\subseteq A</annotation></semantics></math>, to be the interpretation of the negative falsity <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_71' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊥</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\bot</annotation></semantics></math>:</p> <ul> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_72' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo>⊥</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\Vdash \bot</annotation></semantics></math> if and only if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_73' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>∈</mo><mi>F</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\in F</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <p>We can then, if we wish, interpret negation and negative disjunction by defining <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_74' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>¬</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>≔</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mo>⊥</mo><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\neg P \coloneqq (P\multimap \bot)</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_75' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo>⅋</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>≔</mo><mo>¬</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mo>¬</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊗</mo><mo>¬</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>P\parr Q \coloneqq \neg (\neg P \otimes \neg Q)</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>The latter is most sensible if negation is involutive, which it need not be in general — that is, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_76' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo>¬</mo><mo>¬</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash \neg \neg P</annotation></semantics></math> we need not have <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_77' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x\Vdash P</annotation></semantics></math>. One solution to this (if we want negation to be involutive) is to close up <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_78' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊩</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\Vdash</annotation></semantics></math> under double-negation. This entails replacing the clauses defining the interpretation of the positive connectives <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_79' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊗</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\otimes</annotation></semantics></math>, <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_80' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊕</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\oplus</annotation></semantics></math>, <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_81' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>1</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{1}</annotation></semantics></math>, and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_82' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>0</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{0}</annotation></semantics></math> with their double-negation closure. This is commonly done in the <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/phase+semantics'>phase semantics</a> for linear logic (see below).</p> <h2 id='dayconvolution'>From ternary frames to quantales</h2> <p>Since the models above associate to formulas <em>subsets</em> of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_83' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>, it seems natural to describe them in a purely algebraic way using structure on the <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/power+set'>powerset</a> of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_84' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>. In the case when <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_85' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is a poset, instead of the powerset of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_86' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> we must use the set of up-closed subsets of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_87' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>. Since this subsumes the unordered case (use the discrete ordering), we henceforth assume <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_88' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> to be a poset, with <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_89' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> having the assumed compatibility relation.</p> <p>In fact, this axiom (which we repeat here for the reader’s convenience):</p> <ul> <li>if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_90' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_91' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>′</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x'\le x</annotation></semantics></math>, <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_92' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>′</mo><mo>≤</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y'\le y</annotation></semantics></math>, and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_93' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>′</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z\le z'</annotation></semantics></math>, then also <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_94' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mo>′</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>′</mo><mi>z</mi><mo>′</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x' y' z'</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <p>says precisely that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_95' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> is a <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_96' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}</annotation></semantics></math>-<a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/enriched+category'>enriched</a> <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/profunctor'>profunctor</a> <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_97' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup><mo>×</mo><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup><mi>⇸</mi><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A^{op} \times A^{op} &#8696; A^{op}</annotation></semantics></math>. (Here we are identifying posets with <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_98' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}</annotation></semantics></math>-enriched categories, where <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_99' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}</annotation></semantics></math> is the <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/interval+category'>interval category</a>.)</p> <p>Therefore, by <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/Day+convolution'>Day convolution</a>, <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_100' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> induces a binary tensor product on the <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_101' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}</annotation></semantics></math>-enriched <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/category+of+presheaves'>presheaf category</a> <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_102' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math>, which is precisely the poset of up-closed sets in <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_103' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>. This tensor product is precisely the above interpretation of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_104' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊗</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\otimes</annotation></semantics></math>. By the usual Day convolution arguments, this tensor product functor has both left and right adjoints, which are precisely the interpretation of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_105' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊸</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\multimap</annotation></semantics></math> and its dual.</p> <p>Of course, the interpretations of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_106' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>&</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\&</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_107' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊕</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\oplus</annotation></semantics></math> are just the categorical product and coproduct in <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_108' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math>. Similarly, that of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_109' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>0</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{0}</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_110' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊤</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\top</annotation></semantics></math> are the initial and terminal objects.</p> <p>A truth set <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_111' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T</annotation></semantics></math> corresponds to a profunctor <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_112' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mi>⇸</mi><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>1 &#8696; A^{op}</annotation></semantics></math> which is a unit for the pro-multiplication <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_113' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math>. Therefore, in this case the tensor product on <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_114' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math> has a unit object, which is precisely <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_115' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T</annotation></semantics></math>, the interpretation of the positive truth <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_116' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>1</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{1}</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>If we were to additionally add the assumption that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_117' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R</annotation></semantics></math> is <em>associative</em>, in the sense that</p> <ul> <li>there exists a <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_118' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z</annotation></semantics></math> with <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_119' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_120' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>z</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R z u v</annotation></semantics></math> if and only if there exists a <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_121' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>w</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>w</annotation></semantics></math> with <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_122' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>w</mi><mi>v</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x w v</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_123' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>u</mi><mi>w</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R y u w</annotation></semantics></math></li> </ul> <p>then <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_124' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A^{op}</annotation></semantics></math> would become a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/promonoidal+category'>promonoidal</a> poset, and hence <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_125' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math> would be a complete and cocomplete closed monoidal poset, i.e. a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/quantale'>quantale</a>.</p> <p>A false set <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_126' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>F</annotation></semantics></math> is of course just an arbitrary object of this quantale. Closing up under double-negation means restricting to the sub-poset of elements that are equal to their “double dual” <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_127' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>F</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo><mo>⊸</mo><mi>F</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x = (x \multimap F) \multimap F</annotation></semantics></math>. Since the self-adjunction <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_128' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mo lspace='verythinmathspace' rspace='0em'>−</mo><mo>⊸</mo><mi>F</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>(-\multimap F)</annotation></semantics></math> is <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/idempotent+adjunction'>idempotent</a>, this sub-poset is itself a quantale, and indeed a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/star-autonomous+category'>*-autonomous</a> one.</p> <p>The quantale-theoretic content of a compatibility relation is somewhat trickier: as defined it is a profunctor from <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_129' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> to itself, whereas the negation of a pro-<math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_130' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>*</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>*</annotation></semantics></math>-autonomous poset would be a profunctor from <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_131' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A^{op}</annotation></semantics></math> to <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_132' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>. (This would induce a functor <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_133' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup><msup><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo> <mi>op</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>(\mathbf{2}^A)^{op} \to \mathbf{2}^{A}</annotation></semantics></math> due to the special property that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_134' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle><mo>≅</mo><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}\cong \mathbf{2}^{op}</annotation></semantics></math>.) Moreover, the definition of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_135' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo>¬</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash \neg P</annotation></semantics></math> for a compatibility relation is also the (metatheoretic) <em>negation</em> of the map on <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_136' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math> that would be induced profunctorially. If we put these together, we can see that negation ought to be the the composite of the map <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_137' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup><mo>→</mo><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A \to \mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math> induced by the profunctor <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_138' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>C</annotation></semantics></math> with the isomorphism <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_139' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup><mo>≅</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mrow><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow></msup><msup><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A \cong (\mathbf{2}^{A^{op}})^{op}</annotation></semantics></math> (using again that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_140' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle><mo>≅</mo><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}\cong \mathbf{2}^{op}</annotation></semantics></math>). At least if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_141' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is discrete, so that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_142' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi><mo>≅</mo><msup><mi>A</mi> <mi>op</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A\cong A^{op}</annotation></semantics></math>, then this has the correct domain and codomain, so we should be able to assert an axiom ensuring that it makes <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_143' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math> <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_144' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>*</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>*</annotation></semantics></math>-autononmous.</p> <div class='query'> <p>To be completed…</p> </div> <h3 id='generalizations'>Generalizations</h3> <p>The quantale-theoretic viewpoint suggests a generalization replacing <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_145' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}</annotation></semantics></math> by any other quantale. That is, for any quantale <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_146' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>Q</annotation></semantics></math>, we can define a notion of “<math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_147' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>Q</annotation></semantics></math>-valued ternary frame” that generates a new quantale by Day convolution. Everything goes through without significant change, except that compatibility relations seem to require <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_148' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>Q</annotation></semantics></math> itself to be <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_149' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>*</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>*</annotation></semantics></math>-autonomous.</p> <h2 id='examples'>Examples</h2> <h3 id='phase_spaces'>Phase spaces</h3> <p>If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_150' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/magma'>magma</a> with multiplication <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_151' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⋅</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\cdot</annotation></semantics></math>, then we can make it a ternary frame by defining <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_152' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> to mean <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_153' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⋅</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>=</mo><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \cdot y = z</annotation></semantics></math>. More generally, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_154' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is a poset equipped with a binary multiplication <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_155' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⋅</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\cdot</annotation></semantics></math>, we can make it an ordered ternary frame by defining <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_156' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> to mean <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_157' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⋅</mo><mi>y</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \cdot y \le z</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <p>If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_158' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⋅</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\cdot</annotation></semantics></math> has a unit object <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_159' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>t</annotation></semantics></math>, then <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_160' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy='false'>{</mo><mi>t</mi><mo stretchy='false'>}</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T = \{t\}</annotation></semantics></math> (in the unordered case) or <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_161' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>T</mi><mo>=</mo><mo stretchy='false'>{</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy='false'>|</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>≤</mo><mi>x</mi><mo stretchy='false'>}</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>T = \{x | t \le x \}</annotation></semantics></math> (in the ordered case) is a truth set.</p> <p>Categorically, this corresponds to the usual way of regarding a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/monoidal+category'>monoidal category</a> as a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/promonoidal+category'>promonoidal category</a>.</p> <p>In the special case when <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_162' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is a commutative <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/monoid'>monoid</a> equipped with a “false set” <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_163' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>F</annotation></semantics></math> as above (usually written <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_164' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊥</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\bot</annotation></semantics></math>) in this context, this semantics for linear logic is called <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/phase+semantics'>phase semantics</a> (see there for more). It is usually expressed in terms of the quantale <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_165' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><msup><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>2</mn></mstyle> <mi>A</mi></msup></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\mathbf{2}^A</annotation></semantics></math> obtained by Day convolution, but after passing to fixed points of the double-negation monad (in order to obtain an involutive negation). In this context, fixed points of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_166' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>¬</mo><mo>¬</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\neg\neg</annotation></semantics></math> are referred to as <em>facts</em>.</p> <p>It is also possible to interpret the exponential modalities <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_167' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>!</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>!</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_168' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>?</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>?</annotation></semantics></math> of linear logic using phase space semantics. For instance, we can define</p> <ul> <li><math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_169' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo>!</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \Vdash !P</annotation></semantics></math> if and only if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_170' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x</annotation></semantics></math> belongs to the <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_171' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>¬</mo><mo>¬</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\neg\neg</annotation></semantics></math>-closure of the set of all idempotents <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_172' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y</annotation></semantics></math> such that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_173' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>y</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mi>&</mi><mstyle mathvariant='bold'><mn>1</mn></mstyle></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>y\Vdash P \& \mathbf{1}</annotation></semantics></math>.</li> </ul> <p>and obtain <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_174' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>?</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>?P</annotation></semantics></math> by duality.</p> <p>Phase space semantics is <em>complete</em> for <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/linear+logic'>linear logic</a>, in the sense that a formula is provable if and only if in any phase space semantics we have <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_175' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>⊨</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>1\vDash P</annotation></semantics></math>, where <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_176' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>1</annotation></semantics></math> is the unit element of the monoid <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_177' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>.</p> <h3 id='pcas'>PCAs</h3> <p>If <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_178' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is a <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/partial+combinatory+algebra'>partial combinatory algebra</a> (PCA), we can make it a ternary frame by defining <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_179' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>R</mi><mi>x</mi><mi>y</mi><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>R x y z</annotation></semantics></math> to mean that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_180' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>⋅</mo><mi>y</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>x \cdot y</annotation></semantics></math> is defined and equals <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_181' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>z</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>z</annotation></semantics></math>. (Similarly, if <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_182' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math> is an ordered PCA we can make it an ordered ternary frame.) The resulting interpretation of <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_183' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mo>⊸</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>\multimap</annotation></semantics></math> almost coincides with the usual interpretation of implication in <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/realizability'>realizability</a> over <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_184' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>A</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>A</annotation></semantics></math>, and the combinators <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_185' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>s</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>k,s</annotation></semantics></math> have the property that <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_186' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>k</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>P</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>k \Vdash P \multimap (Q \multimap P)</annotation></semantics></math> and <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_187' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>s</mi><mo>⊩</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>R</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo><mo>⊸</mo><mo stretchy='false'>(</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo stretchy='false'>)</mo><mo>⊸</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>⊸</mo><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>s \Vdash (P \multimap Q \multimap R) \multimap (P \multimap Q) \multimap P \multimap R</annotation></semantics></math> for any <math class='maruku-mathml' display='inline' id='mathml_6180ba805badbf87460a6a5d0a1e639f2805c23f_188' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'><semantics><mrow><mi>P</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>Q</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>R</mi></mrow><annotation encoding='application/x-tex'>P,Q,R</annotation></semantics></math>, as would be expected from typed <a class='existingWikiWord' href='/nlab/show/combinatory+logic'>combinatory logic</a>.</p> <h2 id='references'>References</h2> <ul> <li> <p>R. Routley and R.K. Meyer, <em>The Semantics of Entailment I</em>, Truth, Syntax and Modality, ed. H. Leblanc, North-Holland Publishing Company (Amsterdam), pp. 199-243. (1973)</p> </li> <li> <p>R. Routley and R.K. Meyer, <em>The Semantics of Entailment, II-III</em>. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1, 53-73 and 192-208. (1972)</p> </li> <li> <p>Natasha Kurtonina, <em>Frames and Labels - A modal analysis of categorial inference</em>. Ph.D. Thesis, Institute of Logic, Language and Information (ILLC), Amsterdam, 1994</p> </li> <li> <p>J. M. Dunn and R. K. Meyer, <em>Combinators and Structurally Free Logic</em>. Logic journal of the IGPL, 5(4):505-538, July 1997</p> </li> <li> <p>Greg Restall, <em>An introduction to substructural logic</em>. Routledge, 2000.</p> </li> </ul> <p> </p> </div>  <div class="revisedby"> <p> Revision on March 14, 2024 at 11:34:29 by <a href="/nlab/author/Max+S.+New" style="color: #005c19">Max S. 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