On modal components of the S4-logics

We consider the representation of each extension of the modal logic S4 as sum of two components. The first component in such a representation is always included in Grzegorczyk logic and hence contains "modal resources" of the logic in question, while the second one uses essentially the resources of a corresponding intermediate logic. We prove some results towards the conjecture that every S4-logic has a representation with the least component of the first kind.

FORMULAS IN MODAL LOGIC S4

Here, we provide a detailed description of the mutual relation of formulas with finite propositional variables p1, …, pm in modal logic S4. Our description contains more information on S4 than those given in Shehtman (1978) and Moss (2007); however, Shehtman (1978) also treated Grzegorczyk logic and Moss (2007) treated many other normal modal logics. Specifically, we construct normal forms, which behave like the principal conjunctive normal forms in the classical propositional logic. The results include finite and effective methods to find a normal form equivalent to a given formula A by clarifying the behavior of connectives and giving a finite method to list all exact models.