Title :
Zero-one laws for modal logic
Author :
Halpern, Joseph Y. ; Kapron, Bruce M.
Author_Institution :
IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA
Abstract :
It is shown that a 0-1 law holds for propositional modal logic, both for structure validity and for frame validity. In the case of structure validity, the result follows easily from the well-known 0-1 law for first-order logic. However, the proof gives considerably more information. It leads to an elegant axiomatization for almost-sure structure validity, and sharper complexity bounds. Since frame validity can be reduced to a II11 formula, the 0-1 law for frame validity helps delineate when 0-1 laws exist for second-order logics
Keywords :
formal logic; 0-1 law; almost-sure structure validity; complexity bounds; first-order logic; frame validity; modal logic; propositional modal logic; second-order logics; structure validity; zero-one laws; Computer science; Logic; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Logic in Computer Science, 1992. LICS '92., Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Santa Cruz, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2735-2
DOI :
10.1109/LICS.1992.185549