Presburger modal logic is PSPACE-Complete

  • Authors:
  • Stéphane Demri;Denis Lugiez

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire Spécification et Vérification CNRS & INRIA Futurs projet SECSI & ENS Cachan;Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale, Marseille UMR 6166 CNRS-Université de Provence

  • Venue:
  • IJCAR'06 Proceedings of the Third international joint conference on Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We introduce a Presburger modal logic PML with regularity constraints and full Presburger constraints on the number of children that generalize graded modalities, also known as number restrictions in description logics. We show that PML satisfiability is only pspace-complete by designing a Ladner-like algorithm that can be turned into an analytic proof system. algorithm. This extends a well-known and non-trivial pspace upper bound for graded modal logic. Furthermore, we provide a detailed comparison with logics that contain Presburger constraints and that are dedicated to query XML documents. As an application, we show that satisfiability for Sheaves Logic SL is pspace-complete, improving significantly its best known upper bound.