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    Complexity of Safety and coSafety Fragments of Linear Temporal Logic

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    Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) is the de-facto standard temporal logic for system specification, whose foundational properties have been studied for over five decades. Safety and cosafety properties define notable fragments of LTL, where a prefix of a trace suffices to establish whether a formula is true or not over that trace. In this paper, we study the complexity of the problems of satisfiability, validity, and realizability over infinite and finite traces for the safety and cosafety fragments of LTL. As for satisfiability and validity over infinite traces, we prove that the majority of the fragments have the same complexity as full LTL, that is, they are PSPACE-complete. The picture is radically different for realizability: we find fragments with the same expressive power whose complexity varies from 2EXPTIME-complete (as full LTL) to EXPTIME-complete. Notably, for all cosafety fragments, the complexity of the three problems does not change passing from infinite to finite traces, while for all safety fragments the complexity of satisfiability (resp., realizability) over finite traces drops to NP-complete (resp., ΠP2 -complete)

    A Singly Exponential Transformation of LTL[X, F] into Pure Past LTL

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    Confronting the past can be hard. This is true even in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL), interpreted on either infinite or finite traces, when faced with the problem of transforming a temporally future formula into an equivalent one that contains past temporal modalities only. To our knowledge, the best among the available pastification procedures for full LTL, as well as for expressive enough fragments of it (that is, containing at least one temporal modality other than tomorrow), are triply exponential in the size of the input. In this paper, we focus on the fragment of LTL that features the tomorrow and eventually modalities, and provide a singly exponential pastification algorithm for it. The transformation is based on a normalisation procedure that requires a non-trivial complexity analysis, and on the subsequent generation of a pure past formula from suitably-defined dependency tree structures. Moreover, leveraging its purely syntactic nature, we present an implementation of our procedure in a temporal satisfiability checking tool that deals with both future and past modalities
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