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Decidability of Extensions of Presburger Arithmetic by Hardy Field Functions

Logic in Computer Science 2025-08-27 v1 Logic Number Theory

Abstract

We study the extension of Presburger arithmetic by the class of sub-polynomial Hardy field functions, and show the majority of these extensions to be undecidable. More precisely, we show that the theory Th(Z;<,+,f)\mathrm{Th}(\mathbb{Z}; <, +, \lfloor f \rceil), where ff is a Hardy field function and \lfloor \cdot \rceil the nearest integer operator, is undecidable when ff grows polynomially faster than xx. Further, we show that when ff grows sub-linearly quickly, but still as fast as some polynomial, the theory Th(Z;<,+,f)\mathrm{Th}(\mathbb{Z}; <, +, \lfloor f \rceil) is undecidable.

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@article{arxiv.2508.19206,
  title  = {Decidability of Extensions of Presburger Arithmetic by Hardy Field Functions},
  author = {Hera Brown and Jakub Konieczny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19206},
  year   = {2025}
}

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