Filtration Safe Operations on Frames

Filtration is a standard tool for establishing the finite model property of modal logics. We consider logics and classes of frames that admit filtration, and identify some operations on them that preserve this property. In particular, the operation of adding the inverse or the transitive closure of a relation is shown to be safe in this sense. These results are then used to prove that every regular grammar logic with converse admits filtration. We present filtration constructions for right-linear and left-linear grammar logics. We also give a simple example of a grammar modal logic that is undecidable and hence does not admit filtration.