EXPTIME tableaux for the coalgebraic μ-calculus

Corina Cîrstea*, Clemens Kupke, Dirk Pattinson

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Abstract

The coalgebraic approach to modal logic provides a uniform framework that captures the semantics of a large class of structurally different modal logics, including e.g. graded and probabilistic modal logics and coalition logic. In this paper, we introduce the coalgebraic μ-calculus, an extension of the general (coalgebraic) framework with fixpoint operators. Our main results are completeness of the associated tableau calculus and EXPTIME decidability. Technically, this is achieved by reducing satisfiability to the existence of non-wellfounded tableaux, which is in turn equivalent to the existence of winning strategies in parity games. Our results are parametric in the underlying class of models and yield, as concrete applications, previously unknown complexity bounds for the probabilistic μ-calculus and for an extension of coalition logic with fixpoints.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Science Logic - 23rd International Workshop, CSL 2009 - 18th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Proceedings
Pages179-193
Number of pages15
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd International Workshop on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2009 - 18th Annual Conference of the EACSL - Coimbra, Portugal
Duration: 7 Sept 200911 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5771 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd International Workshop on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2009 - 18th Annual Conference of the EACSL
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityCoimbra
Period7/09/0911/09/09

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