Disjunctive form and the modal μ alternation hierarchy

This paper studies the relationship between disjunctive form, a syntactic normal form for the modal mu calculus, and the alternation hierarchy. First it shows that all disjunctive formulas which have equivalent tableau have the same syntactic alternation depth. However, tableau equivalence only pres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karoliina Lehtinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2015-09-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.03019v1