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@inproceedings{405208, author = {Kučera, Antonín and Strejček, Jan}, address = {Berlin}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (CSL'02)}, keywords = {verification; concurrency; weak bisimilarity; infinite-state systems}, language = {eng}, location = {Berlin}, isbn = {3-540-44240-5}, pages = {276-291}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {The Stuttering Principle Revisited: On the Expressiveness of Nested X and U Operators in the Logic LTL}, year = {2002} }
TY - JOUR ID - 405208 AU - Kučera, Antonín - Strejček, Jan PY - 2002 TI - The Stuttering Principle Revisited: On the Expressiveness of Nested X and U Operators in the Logic LTL PB - Springer CY - Berlin SN - 3540442405 KW - verification KW - concurrency KW - weak bisimilarity KW - infinite-state systems N2 - It is known that LTL formulae without the `next' operator are invariant under the so-called stutter-equivalence of words. In this paper we extend this principle to general LTL formulae with given nesting depths of the `next' and `until' operators. This allows us to prove the semantical strictness of three natural hierarchies of LTL formulae, which are parametrized either by the nesting depth of just one of the two operators, or by both of them. As another interesting corollary we obtain an alternative characterization of LTL languages, which are exactly the regular languages closed under the generalized form of stutter equivalence. We also indicate how to tackle the state-space explosion problem with the help of presented results. ER -
KUČERA, Antonín and Jan STREJČEK. The Stuttering Principle Revisited: On the Expressiveness of Nested X and U Operators in the Logic LTL. J. Bradfield (Ed.). In \textit{Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Science Logic (CSL'02)}. Berlin: Springer, 2002, p.~276-291. ISBN~3-540-44240-5.
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