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We characterize the expressive power of EX, EF and EX+EF logics. These are the fragments of CTL built using the respective operators. We give a forbidden pattern characterization of the tree languages definable in these logics. The characterizations give optimal algorithms for deciding if a given tree language is expressible in one of the three logics.
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Bojańczyk, M., Walukiewicz, I. (2004). Characterizing EF and EX Tree Logics. In: Gardner, P., Yoshida, N. (eds) CONCUR 2004 - Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3170. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28644-8_9
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