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Expressiveness Results for Timed Modal Mu-Calculi

Logic in Computer Science 2025-08-08 v1

Abstract

This paper establishes relative expressiveness results for several modal mu-calculi interpreted over timed automata. These mu-calculi combine modalities for expressing passage of (real) time with a general framework for defining formulas recursively; several variants have been proposed in the literature. We show that one logic, which we call Lν,μrelL^{rel}_{\nu,\mu}, is strictly more expressive than the other mu-calculi considered. It is also more expressive than the temporal logic TCTL, while the other mu-calculi are incomparable with TCTL in the setting of general timed automata.

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@article{arxiv.2310.04100,
  title  = {Expressiveness Results for Timed Modal Mu-Calculi},
  author = {Rance Cleaveland and Jeroen J. A. Keiren and Peter Fontana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.04100},
  year   = {2025}
}
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