Generalized modal satisfiability

  • Authors:
  • Edith Hemaspaandra;Henning Schnoor;Ilka Schnoor

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA;Institut für Informatik, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Platz 4, D-24098 Kiel, Germany;Institut für Theoretische Informatik, Universität Lübeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D-23538 Lübeck, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

It is well known that modal satisfiability is PSPACE-complete (Ladner (1977) [21]). However, the complexity may decrease if we restrict the set of propositional operators used. Note that there exist an infinite number of propositional operators, since a propositional operator is simply a Boolean function. We completely classify the complexity of modal satisfiability for every finite set of propositional operators, i.e., in contrast to previous work, we classify an infinite number of problems. We show that, depending on the set of propositional operators, modal satisfiability is PSPACE-complete, coNP-complete, or in P. We obtain this trichotomy not only for modal formulas, but also for their more succinct representation using modal circuits. We consider both the uni-modal and the multi-modal cases, and study the dual problem of validity as well.