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The Completeness Problem for Modal Logic

Logic in Computer Science 2017-09-20 v2

Abstract

We introduce the completeness problem for Modal Logic and examine its complexity. For a definition of completeness for formulas, given a formula of a modal logic, the completeness problem asks whether the formula is complete for that logic. We discover that completeness and validity have the same complexity --- with certain exceptions for which there are, in general, no complete formulas. To prove upper bounds, we present a non-deterministic polynomial-time procedure with an oracle from PSPACE that combines tableaux and a test for bisimulation, and determines whether a formula is complete.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01004,
  title  = {The Completeness Problem for Modal Logic},
  author = {Antonis Achilleos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01004},
  year   = {2017}
}