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Neighbourhood Contingency Bisimulation

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We introduce a notion of bisimulation for contingency logic interpreted on neighbourhood structures, characterise this logic as bisimulation-invariant fragment of modal logic and of first-order logic, and compare it with existing notions in the literature.

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Zeinab Bakhtiari and Hans van Ditmarsch gratefully acknowledge support from European Research Council grant EPS 313360. We thank Jie Fan, Yanjing Wang and the anonymous referees for their comments which helped improve the paper substantially.

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Bakhtiari, Z., van Ditmarsch, H., Hansen, H.H. (2017). Neighbourhood Contingency Bisimulation. In: Ghosh, S., Prasad, S. (eds) Logic and Its Applications. ICLA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54069-5_5

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