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Choice-free Stone-style duality for Heyting algebras (analogue of UV-spaces)

Develop a choice-free, possibility-based topological duality for arbitrary Heyting algebras by identifying the most natural analogue of upper Vietoris spaces (UV-spaces) for Boolean algebras; formally construct the corresponding dual category and prove a duality theorem that represents every Heyting algebra without invoking choice principles.

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Background

UV-spaces provide a choice-free topological duality for Boolean algebras in possibility semantics. An analogous structure for Heyting algebras would extend possibility semantics beyond complete Heyting algebras and connect to locales and nuclei-based representations.

The chapter explicitly leaves open the identification of such a structure and the associated duality, positioning it as a cornerstone for a fully general possibility semantics for intuitionistic logic.

References

To develop possibility semantics not only for complete Heyting algebras but for arbitrary Heyting algebras, we need an appropriate analogue of ``choice-free Stone duality'' for Heyting algebras. We leave this as an open problem.

Question What is the most natural analogue for Heyting algebras of UV-spaces for Boolean algebras?

Possibility Semantics (2405.06852 - Holliday, 10 May 2024) in Section 7, Intuitionistic case