EXPSPACE-Complete Variant of Guarded Fragment with Transitivity

  • Authors:
  • Emanuel Kieronski

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STACS '02 Proceedings of the 19th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We introduce a new fragment GF2 + TG of the first order logic - the two-variable guarded fragment with one-way transitive guards. This logic corresponds in a natural way to temporal logics without past operators. We prove that the satisfiability problem for GF2+TG is EXPSPACE-complete. The lower bound, obtained for the monadic version of the considered logic without equality, improves NEXPTIME lower bound for the whole two-variable guarded fragment with transitive guards GF2 + TG, given by Szwast and Tendera [8].