Generalized modal satisfiability

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

  • Affiliations:
  • Theoretische Informatik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany;Department of Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY;Theoretische Informatik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany;Theoretische Informatik, Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

  • Venue:
  • STACS'06 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual conference on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It is well-known that modal satisfiability is PSPACE-complete [Lad77]. 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.