On the expressive power of CTL

Faron Moller; Alexander Rabinovich

On the expressive power of CTL

Faron Moller^*, Alexander Rabinovich

^*Corresponding author for this work

Uppsala University

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Abstract

We show that the expressive power of the branching time logic CTL^* coincides with that of the class of bisimulation invariant properties expressible in so-called monadic path logic: monadic second order logic in which set quantification is restricted to paths. In order to prove this result, we first prove a new Composition Theorem for trees. This approach is adapted from the approach of Hafer and Thomas in their proof that CTL^* coincides with the whole of monadic path logic over the class of full binary trees.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	360-368
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	0780357701
State	Published - 1999
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of the 1999 14th Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS'99 - Trento, Italy Duration: 2 Jul 1999 → 5 Jul 1999

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Conference	Proceedings of the 1999 14th Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS'99
City	Trento, Italy
Period	2/07/99 → 5/07/99

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