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On the complexity of Maslov's class $\overline{\text{K}}$

Logic in Computer Science 2024-07-19 v1

Abstract

Maslov's class K\overline{\text{K}} is an expressive fragment of First-Order Logic known to have decidable satisfiability problem, whose exact complexity, however, has not been established so far. We show that K\overline{\text{K}} has the exponential-sized model property, and hence its satisfiability problem is NExpTime-complete. Additionally, we get new complexity results on related fragments studied in the literature, and propose a new decidable extension of the uniform one-dimensional fragment (without equality). Our approach involves a use of satisfiability games tailored to K\overline{\text{K}} and a novel application of paradoxical tournament graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2407.13339,
  title  = {On the complexity of Maslov's class $\overline{\text{K}}$},
  author = {Oskar Fiuk and Emanuel Kieronski and Vincent Michielini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.13339},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This is an extended version of the LICS'24 paper