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Modal logics are widely used in computer science. The complexity of their satisfiability problems has been an active field of research since the 1970s. We prove that even very "simple" modal logics can be undecidable: We show that there is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Edith Hemaspaandra , Henning Schnoor

The satisfiability problem of hybrid logics with the downarrow binder is known to be undecidable. This initiated a research program on decidable and tractable fragments. In this paper, we investigate the effect of restricting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Michael Thomas , Volker Weber , Felix Weiss

Hybrid logic with binders is an expressive specification language. Its satisfiability problem is undecidable in general. If frames are restricted to N or general linear orders, then satisfiability is known to be decidable, but of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Stefan Göller , Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Michael Thomas , Felix Weiss

In previous works, a tableau calculus has been defined, which constitutes a decision procedure for hybrid logic with the converse and global modalities and a restricted use of the binder. This work shows how to extend such a calculus to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Marta Cialdea Mayer

While modal extensions of decidable fragments of first-order logic are usually undecidable, their monodic counterparts, in which formulas in the scope of modal operators have at most one free variable, are typically decidable. This only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alessandro Artale , Christopher Hampson , Roman Kontchakov , Andrea Mazzullo , Frank Wolter

We show that for any class of Boolean algebras with an associative operator, if it contains the complex algebra of (P(N), U), its equational theory is undecidable. Equivalently, any associative normal modal logic valid over the frame (P(N),…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Søren Brinck Knudstorp

Quantified modal logic provides a natural logical language for reasoning about modal attitudes even while retaining the richness of quantification for referring to predicates over domains. But then most fragments of the logic are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam , Yanjing Wang

We show that the unification problem `is there a substitution instance of a given formula that is provable in a given logic?' is undecidable for basic modal logics K and K4 extended with the universal modality. It follows that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

In a previous paper, a tableau calculus has been presented, which constitute a decision procedure for hybrid logic with the converse and global modalities and a restricted use of the binder. This work extends such a calculus to multi-modal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-12-11 M. Cialdea Mayer

Propositional term modal logic is interpreted over Kripke structures with unboundedly many accessibility relations and hence the syntax admits variables indexing modalities and quantification over them. This logic is undecidable, and we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Anantha Padmanabha , R Ramanujam

We study elementary modal logics, i.e. modal logic considered over first-order definable classes of frames. The classical semantics of modal logic allows infinite structures, but often practical applications require to restrict our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop , Piotr Witkowski

Relation-changing modal logics are extensions of the basic modal logic that allow changes to the accessibility relation of a model during the evaluation of a formula. In particular, they are equipped with dynamic modalities that are able to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Carlos Areces , Raul Fervari , Guillaume Hoffmann , Mauricio Martel

Term modal logics (TML) are modal logics with unboundedly many modalities, with quantification over modal indices, so that we can have formulas of the form $\exists y. \forall x. (\Box_x P(x,y) \supset\Diamond_y P(y,x))$. Like First order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam

We define a logic of propositional formula schemata adding to the syntax of propositional logic indexed propositions and iterated connectives ranging over intervals parameterized by arithmetic variables. The satisfiability problem is shown…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Vincent Aravantinos , Ricardo Caferra , Nicolas Peltier

Nonmonotonic logics are usually characterized by the presence of some notion of 'conditional' that fails monotonicity. Research on nonmonotonic logics is therefore largely concerned with the defeasibility of argument forms and the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Katarina Britz , Ivan Varzinczak

The satisfiability problem for First-order Modal Logic (\FOML) is undecidable even for simple fragments like having only unary predicates, two variables etc. Recently a new way to identify decidable fragments of \FOML has been introduced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Varad Joshi , Anantha Padmanabha

Arbitrary Arrow Update Logic is a dynamic modal logic that uses an arbitrary arrow update modality to quantify over all arrow updates. Some properties of this logic have already been established, but until now it remained an open question…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Hans van Ditmarsch , Wiebe van der Hoek , Louwe B. Kuijer

The finite satisfiability problem of two-variable logic extended by a linear order successor and a preorder successor is shown to be undecidable.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Amaldev Manuel , Thomas Schwentick , Thomas Zeume

We study multimodal logics over universally first-order definable classes of frames. We show that even for bimodal logics, there are universal Horn formulas that define set of frames such that the satisfiability problem is undecidable, even…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jakub Michaliszyn

We introduce a novel decidable fragment of first-order logic. The fragment is one-dimensional in the sense that quantification is limited to applications of blocks of existential (universal) quantifiers such that at most one variable…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Lauri Hella , Antti Kuusisto
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