Structural Operational Semantics and Modal Logic, Revisited

A previously introduced combination of the bialgebraic approach to structural operational semantics with coalgebraic modal logic is re-examined and improved in some aspects. Firstly, a more abstract, conceptual proof of the main compositionality theorem is given, based on an understanding of modal logic as a study of coalgebras in slice categories of adjunctions. Secondly, a more concrete understanding of the assumptions of the theorem is provided, where proving compositionality amounts to finding a syntactic distributive law between two collections of predicate liftings.

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