Decidability of Quasi-Dense Modal Logics

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Abstract

The decidability of axiomatic extensions of the modal logic K with modal reduction principles, i.e. axioms of the form ⋄ kp → ⋄np, has remained a long-standing open problem. In this paper, we make significant progress toward solving this problem and show that decidability holds for a large subclass of these logics, namely, for quasi-dense logics. Such logics are extensions of K with modal reduction axioms such that 0 < k < n (dubbed quasi-density axioms). To prove decidability, we define novel proof systems for quasi-dense logics consisting of disjunctive existential rules, which are first-order formulae typically used to specify ontologies in the context of database theory. We show that such proof systems can be used to generate proofs and models of modal formulae, and provide an intricate model-theoretic argument showing that such generated models can be encoded as finite objects called templates. By enumerating templates of bound size, we obtain an ExpSpace decision procedure as a consequence.

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 39th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2024)
PublisherACM Press
ISBN (electronic)979-8-4007-0660-8
Publication statusPublished - 8 Jul 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

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ORCID /0000-0003-3214-0828/work/199216616
Scopus 85199026403

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Keywords

  • Kripke model, chase, decidability, existential rule, modal logic, modal reduction principle, model theory, quasi-density axiom