Good-for-Game QPTL: An Alternating Hodges Semantics

Abstract

An extension of QPTL is considered where functional dependencies among the quantified variables can be restricted in such a way that their current values are independent of the future values of the other variables. This restriction is tightly connected to the notion of behavioral strategies in game-theory and allows the resulting logic to naturally express game-theoretic concepts. Inspired by the work on logics of dependence and independence, we provide a new compositional semantics for QPTL that allows for expressing such functional dependencies among variables. The fragment where only restricted quantifications are considered, called behavioral quantifications, allows for linear-time properties that are satisfiable if and only if they are realisable in the Pnueli-Rosner sense. This fragment can be decided, for both model checking and satisfiability, in 2Exp Time and is expressively equivalent to QPTL, though significantly less succinct.