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The Expressive Power of Epistemic $μ$-Calculus

While the $μ$-calculus notoriously subsumes Alternating-time Temporal Logic (ATL), we show that the epistemic $μ$-calculus does not subsume ATL with imperfect information (ATL$_i$) for the synchronous perfect-recall semantics. To prove this we first establish that jumping parity tree automata (JTA), a recently introduced extension of alternating parity tree automata, are expressively equivalent to the epistemic $μ$-calculus, and this for any knowledge semantics. Using this result we also show that, for bounded-memory semantics, the epistemic $μ$-calculus is not more expressive than the standard $μ$-calculus, and that its satisfiability problem is EXPTIME-complete.