A Bitopological Approach to Finite Reduction and Bounded Exact-Value Certificates for Fitting's Finite Heyting-valued Modal Logic

Abstract

Fitting's finite Heyting-valued modal logic interprets modal formulas over a finite Heyting algebra. We use a relational bitopological representation to obtain a finite-state reduction. For a finite model and a finite vocabulary, the modal subalgebra generated by the atomic valuations determines a state-evaluation map. We prove that the observational quotient is isomorphic to its finite image in the bitopological dual and that the quotient relation is the restriction of the canonical dual relation. Hence every formula over the vocabulary preserves its exact truth value, and the quotient is minimal among surjective reductions through which all generated observations factor. In addition, for any formula and state, we construct a finite tree-like exact-value certificate whose depth is bounded by modal depth and whose branching depends only on the height of the truth-value algebra and the number of boxed subformulas. Failed formulas therefore admit bounded reduced counterexamples preserving their precise failure values.