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Main Authors: Badia, Guillermo, Gaina, Daniel, Knapp, Alexander, Kowalski, Tomasz, Wirsing, Martin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02094
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author Badia, Guillermo
Gaina, Daniel
Knapp, Alexander
Kowalski, Tomasz
Wirsing, Martin
author_facet Badia, Guillermo
Gaina, Daniel
Knapp, Alexander
Kowalski, Tomasz
Wirsing, Martin
contents Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games provide means to characterize elementary equivalence for first-order logic, and by standard translation also for modal logics. We propose a novel generalization of Ehrenfeucht- Fraisse games to hybrid-dynamic logics which is direct and fully modular: parameterized by the features of the hybrid language we wish to include, for instance, the modal and hybrid language operators as well as first-order existential quantification. We use these games to establish a new modular Fraisse-Hintikka Theorem for hybrid-dynamic propositional logic and its various fragments. We study the relationship between countable game equivalence (determined by countable Ehrenfeucht- Fraisse games) and bisimulation (determined by countable back-and-forth systems). In general, the former turns out to be weaker than the latter, but under certain conditions on the language, the two coincide. We also use games to prove that for reachable image-finite Kripke structures elementary equivalence implies isomorphism.
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spellingShingle Hybrid-Dynamic Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games
Badia, Guillermo
Gaina, Daniel
Knapp, Alexander
Kowalski, Tomasz
Wirsing, Martin
Logic in Computer Science
Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games provide means to characterize elementary equivalence for first-order logic, and by standard translation also for modal logics. We propose a novel generalization of Ehrenfeucht- Fraisse games to hybrid-dynamic logics which is direct and fully modular: parameterized by the features of the hybrid language we wish to include, for instance, the modal and hybrid language operators as well as first-order existential quantification. We use these games to establish a new modular Fraisse-Hintikka Theorem for hybrid-dynamic propositional logic and its various fragments. We study the relationship between countable game equivalence (determined by countable Ehrenfeucht- Fraisse games) and bisimulation (determined by countable back-and-forth systems). In general, the former turns out to be weaker than the latter, but under certain conditions on the language, the two coincide. We also use games to prove that for reachable image-finite Kripke structures elementary equivalence implies isomorphism.
title Hybrid-Dynamic Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse Games
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02094