Expressiveness of Hybrid Temporal Logic on Data Words

  • Authors:
  • Ahmet Kara;Thomas Schwentick

  • Affiliations:
  • TU Dortmund, Germany;TU Dortmund, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Hybrid temporal logic (HTL) on data words can be considered as an extension of the logic LTL^@7 introduced by Demri and Lazic [Stephane Demri and Ranko Lazic. LTL with the freeze quantifier and register automata. In LICS@?06: Proceedings of the 21st Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, pages 17-26, Washington, DC, USA, 2006. IEEE Computer Society]. The paper compares the expressive power of HTL on data words with that of LTL^@7. It is shown that there are properties of data words that can be expressed in HTL with two variables but not in LTL^@7. On the other hand, every property that can be expressed in HTL with one variable can also be expressed in LTL^@7 with one variable. The paper further studies the succinctness of HTL in comparison with LTL^@7 and shows that the number-of-variables hierarchy of HTL is infinite.