cs.LOApr 20, 2026

Symbolic Synthesis for LTLf+ Obligations

Authors: Giuseppe De GiacomoChristian HagemeierDaniel HausmannNir Piterman

Organizations: University of Oxford, UK · University of Liverpool, UK · University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Abstract

We study synthesis for obligation properties expressed in LTLfp, the extension of LTLf to infinite traces. Obligation properties are positive Boolean combinations of safety and guarantee (co-safety) properties and form the second level of the temporal hierarchy of Manna and Pnueli. Although obligation properties are expressed over infinite traces, they retain most of the simplicity of LTLf. In particular, we show that they admit a translation into symbolically represented deterministic weak automata (DWA) obtained directly from the symbolic deterministic finite automata (DFA) for the underlying LTLf properties on trace prefixes. DWA inherit many of the attractive algorithmic features of DFA, including Boolean closure and polynomial-time minimization. Moreover, we show that synthesis for LTLfp obligation properties is theoretically highly efficient - solvable in linear time once the DWA is constructed. We investigate several symbolic algorithms for solving DWA games that arise in the synthesis of obligation properties and evaluate their effectiveness experimentally. Overall, the results indicate that synthesis for LTLfp obligation properties can be performed with virtually the same effectiveness as LTLf synthesis.

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