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A Propositional Linear Time Logic with Time Flow Isomorphic to \omega^2

Logic 2015-06-30 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Primarily guided with the idea to express zero-time transitions by means of temporal propositional language, we have developed a temporal logic where the time flow is isomorphic to ordinal ω2\omega^2 (concatenation of ω\omega copies of ω\omega). If we think of ω2\omega^2 as lexicographically ordered ω×ω\omega\times \omega, then any particular zero-time transition can be represented by states whose indices are all elements of some {n}×ω\{n\}\times\omega. In order to express non-infinitesimal transitions, we have introduced a new unary temporal operator [ω][\omega] (ω\omega-jump), whose effect on the time flow is the same as the effect of αα+ω\alpha\mapsto \alpha+\omega in ω2\omega^2. In terms of lexicographically ordered ω×ω\omega\times \omega, [ω]ϕ[\omega] \phi is satisfied in  <i,j >\ < i,j\ >-th time instant iff ϕ\phi is satisfied in  <i+1,0 >\ < i+1,0\ >-th time instant. Moreover, in order to formally capture the natural semantics of the until operator U\mathtt U, we have introduced a local variant u\mathtt u of the until operator. More precisely, ϕuψ\phi\,\mathtt u \psi is satisfied in  <i,j >\ < i,j\ >-th time instant iff ψ\psi is satisfied in  <i,j+k >\ < i,j+k\ >-th time instant for some nonnegative integer kk, and ϕ\phi is satisfied in  <i,j+l >\ < i,j+l\ >-th time instant for all 0l<k0\leqslant l<k. As in many of our previous publications, the leitmotif is the usage of infinitary inference rules in order to achieve the strong completeness.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1309.0829,
  title  = {A Propositional Linear Time Logic with Time Flow Isomorphic to \omega^2},
  author = {Bojan Marinković and Zoran Ognjanović and Dragan Doder and Aleksandar Perović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.0829},
  year   = {2015}
}
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