Reasoning about transfinite sequences

  • Authors:
  • Stéphane Demri;David Nowak

  • Affiliations:
  • LSV/CNRS UMR 8643 & INRIA Futurs projet SECSI & ENS Cachan, France;Department of Information Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ATVA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We introduce a family of temporal logics to specify the behavior of systems with Zeno behaviors. We extend linear-time temporal logic LTL to authorize models admitting Zeno sequences of actions and quantitative temporal operators indexed by ordinals replace the standard next-time and until future-time operators. Our aim is to control such systems by designing controllers that safely work on ω-sequences but interact synchronously with the system in order to restrict their behaviors. We show that the satisfiability problem for the logics working on ωk-sequences is expspace-complete when the integers are represented in binary, and pspace-complete with a unary representation. To do so, we substantially extend standard results about LTL by introducing a new class of succinct ordinal automata that can encode the interaction between the different quantitative temporal operators.