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We define analogues of modal Sahlqvist formulas for the modal mu-calculus, and prove a correspondence theorem for them.
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van Benthem, J., Bezhanishvili, N. & Hodkinson, I. Sahlqvist Correspondence for Modal mu-calculus. Stud Logica 100, 31–60 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-012-9388-9
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