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When Symmetry Yields NP-Hardness: Affine ML-SAT on S5 Frames

Logic in Computer Science 2025-12-22 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Hemaspaandra~et~al.~[JCSS 2010] conjectured that satisfiability for multi-modal logic restricted to the connectives XOR and 1, over frame classes T, S4, and S5, is solvable in polynomial time. We refute this for S5 frames, by proving NP-hardness.

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@article{arxiv.2512.17378,
  title  = {When Symmetry Yields NP-Hardness: Affine ML-SAT on S5 Frames},
  author = {Andreas Krebs and Arne Meier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17378},
  year   = {2025}
}

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accepted at FoIKS 2026