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Göller, Stefan ; Lohrey, Markus ; Lutz, Carsten

PDL with Intersection and Converse is 2EXP-complete

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Abstract

The logic ICPDL is the expressive extension of Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL), which admits intersection and converse as program operators. The result of this paper is containment of ICPDL-satisfiability in $2$EXP, which improves the previously known non-elementary upper bound and implies $2$EXP-completeness due to an existing lower bound for PDL with intersection (IPDL). The proof proceeds showing that every satisfiable ICPDL formula has model of tree width at most two. Next, we reduce satisfiability in ICPDL to $omega$-regular tree satisfiability in ICPDL. In the latter problem the set of possible models is restricted to trees of an $omega$-regular tree language. In the final step,$omega$-regular tree satisfiability is reduced the emptiness problem for alternating two-way automata on infinite trees. In this way, a more elegant proof is obtained for Danecki's difficult result that satisfiability in IPDL is in $2EXP$.

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@InProceedings{gller_et_al:DSP:2008:1409,
  author =	{Stefan G{\"o}ller and Markus Lohrey and Carsten Lutz},
  title =	{PDL with Intersection and Converse is 2EXP-complete},
  booktitle =	{Algorithmic-Logical Theory of Infinite Structures},
  year =	{2008},
  editor =	{Rod Downey and Bakhadyr Khoussainov and Dietrich Kuske and Markus Lohrey and Moshe Y. Vardi},
  number =	{07441},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  publisher =	{Internationales Begegnungs- und Forschungszentrum f{\"u}r Informatik (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2008/1409},
  annote =	{Keywords: Satisfiability, Propositional Dynamic Logic, Computational Complexity}
}

Keywords: Satisfiability, Propositional Dynamic Logic, Computational Complexity
Seminar: 07441 - Algorithmic-Logical Theory of Infinite Structures
Issue Date: 2008
Date of publication: 09.04.2008

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