Synchronous Team Semantics for Temporal Logics

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Authors: Andreas Krebs, Arne Meier, Jonni Virtema, Martín Zimmermann
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Abstract

We present team semantics for two of the most important linear and branching time specification languages, Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) and Computation Tree Logic (CTL). With team semantics, LTL is able to express hyperproperties, which have in the last decade been identified as a key concept in the verification of information flow properties. We study basic properties of the logic and classify the computational complexity of its satisfiability, path, and model checking problem. Further, we examine how extensions of the basic logic react to adding additional atomic operators. Finally, we compare its expressivity to the one of HyperLTL, another recently introduced logic for hyperproperties. Our results show that LTL with team semantics is a viable alternative to HyperLTL, which complements the expressivity of HyperLTL and has partially better algorithmic properties. For CTL with team semantics, we investigate the computational complexity of the satisfiability and model checking problem. The satisfiability problem is shown to be EXPTIME-complete while we show that model checking is PSPACE-complete.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Semantic Web and Ontologies Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services Logic Reasoning and Knowledge

Publication details

Journal / source
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Volume
27
Issue
4
Pages
1-36
Publication date
28 July 2026
Language
EN