On a Non-Context-Free Extension of PDL

dc.creatorGöller, Stefan
dc.creatorNowotka, Dirk
dc.date2007-07-04
dc.date2007-07-18
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:18:40Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:18:40Z
dc.descriptionOver the last 25 years, a lot of work has been done on seeking for decidable non-regular extensions of Propositional Dynamic Logic (PDL). Only recently, an expressive extension of PDL, allowing visibly pushdown automata (VPAs) as a formalism to describe programs, was introduced and proven to have a satisfiability problem complete for deterministic double exponential time. Lately, the VPA formalism was extended to so called k-phase multi-stack visibly pushdown automata (k-MVPAs). Similarly to VPAs, it has been shown that the language of k-MVPAs have desirable effective closure properties and that the emptiness problem is decidable. On the occasion of introducing k-MVPAs, it has been asked whether the extension of PDL with k-MVPAs still leads to a decidable logic. This question is answered negatively here. We prove that already for the extension of PDL with 2-phase MVPAs with two stacks satisfiability becomes Σ_1^1-complete.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0562
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0562
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/134516
dc.subjectLogic in Computer Science
dc.titleOn a Non-Context-Free Extension of PDL
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