Elementary Modal Logics over Transitive Structures

Jakub Michaliszyn, Jan Otop, Marc Herbstritt
2013 Annual Conference for Computer Science Logic  
We show that modal logic over universally first-order definable classes of transitive frames is decidable. More precisely, let K be an arbitrary class of transitive Kripke frames definable by a universal first-order sentence. We show that the global and finite global satisfiability problems of modal logic over K are decidable in NP, regardless of choice of K. We also show that the local satisfiability and the finite local satisfiability problems of modal logic over K are decidable in NExpTime.
doi:10.4230/lipics.csl.2013.563 dblp:conf/csl/MichaliszynO13 fatcat:erothykmkndd3enalqswr6tfzm