English

NEXP-completeness and Universal Hardness Results for Justification Logic

Logic in Computer Science 2015-03-03 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We provide a lower complexity bound for the satisfiability problem of a multi-agent justification logic, establishing that the general NEXP upper bound from our previous work is tight. We then use a simple modification of the corresponding reduction to prove that satisfiability for all multi-agent justification logics from there is hard for the Sigma 2 p class of the second level of the polynomial hierarchy - given certain reasonable conditions. Our methods improve on these required conditions for the same lower bound for the single-agent justification logics, proven by Buss and Kuznets in 2009, thus answering one of their open questions.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1503.00362,
  title  = {NEXP-completeness and Universal Hardness Results for Justification Logic},
  author = {Antonis Achilleos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.00362},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Shorter version has been accepted for publication by CSR 2015

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