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DECIDABILITY OF INDEPENDENCE-FRIENDLY MODAL LOGIC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2010

MERLIJN SEVENSTER
MERLIJN SEVENSTER*
Affiliation:
Philips Research
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*PHILIPS RESEARCH, PROF. HOLSTLAAN 4, 5656AA EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS E-mail: merlijn.sevenster@philips.com
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Abstract

In this paper we consider an independence-friendly modal logic, IFML. It follows from results in the literature that qua expressive power, IFML is a fragment of second-order existential logic, , that cannot be translated into first-order logic. It is also known that IFML lacks the tree structure property. We show that IFML has the ‘truncated structure property’, a weaker version of the tree structure property, and that its satisfiability problem is solvable in 2NEXP. This implies that this paper reveals a new decidable fragment of . We also show that IFML becomes undecidable if we add the identity symbol to its vocabulary by means of a reduction from the tiling problem.

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Research Article
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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 415 - 441
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2010

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