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The Relative Succinctness and Expressiveness of Modal Logics Can Be Arbitrarily Complex

Logic in Computer Science 2014-10-23 v1

Abstract

We study the relative succinctness and expressiveness of modal logics, and prove that these relationships can be as complex as any countable partial order. For this, we use two uniform formalisms to define modal operators, and obtain results on succinctness and expressiveness in these two settings. Our proofs are based on formula size games introduced by Adler and Immerman and bisimulations.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5993,
  title  = {The Relative Succinctness and Expressiveness of Modal Logics Can Be Arbitrarily Complex},
  author = {Henning Schnoor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5993},
  year   = {2014}
}

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29 pages