Undecidable Cases of Model Checking Probabilistic Temporal-Epistemic Logic

DOI10.1145/3409250zbMATH Open1502.68188arXiv1511.03003OpenAlexW3096440824WikidataQ130821841 ScholiaQ130821841MaRDI QIDQ5034220FDOQ5034220

Authors: Ron van der Meyden, Manas K. Patra 

Publication date: 24 February 2022

Published in: ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the decidability of model-checking logics of time, knowledge and probability, with respect to two epistemic semantics: the clock and synchronous perfect recall semantics in partially observed discrete-time Markov chains. Decidability results are known for certain restricted logics with respect to these semantics, subject to a variety of restrictions that are either unexplained or involve a longstanding unsolved mathematical problem. We show that mild generalizations of the known decidable cases suffice to render the model checking problem definitively undecidable. In particular, for a synchronous perfect recall, a generalization from temporal operators with finite reach to operators with infinite reach renders model checking undecidable. The case of the clock semantics is closely related to a monadic second order logic of time and probability that is known to be decidable, except on a set of measure zero. We show that two distinct extensions of this logic make model checking undecidable. One of these involves polynomial combinations of probability terms, the other involves monadic second order quantification into the scope of probability operators. These results explain some of the restrictions in previous work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03003

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zbMATH Keywords

model checkingdecidabilitylogic of knowledgelogic of probabilitypartially observable Markov chains

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Logics of knowledge and belief (including belief change) (03B42) Specification and verification (program logics, model checking, etc.) (68Q60) Temporal logic (03B44)

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