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Hybrid logic refers to a group of logics lying between modal and first-order logic in which one can refer to individual states of the Kripke structure. In particular, the hybrid logic HL(@, ↓ ) is an appealing extension of modal logic that allows one to refer to a state by means of the given names and to dynamically create new names for a state.
Unfortunately, as for the richer first-order logic, satisfiability for the hybrid logic HL(@, ↓ ) is undecidable and model checking for HL(@, ↓ ) is PSpace-complete. We carefully analyze these results and we isolate large fragments of HL(@, ↓ ) for which satisfiability is decidable and model checking is below PSpace.
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ten Cate, B., Franceschet, M. (2005). On the Complexity of Hybrid Logics with Binders. In: Ong, L. (eds) Computer Science Logic. CSL 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3634. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11538363_24
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