Register Automata with Extrema Constraints, and an Application to Two-Variable Logic
Abstract
We introduce a model of register automata over infinite trees with extrema constraints. Such an automaton can store elements of a linearly ordered domain in its registers, and can compare those values to the suprema and infima of register values in subtrees. We show that the emptiness problem for these automata is decidable. As an application, we prove decidability of the countable satisfiability problem for two-variable logic in the presence of a tree order, a linear order, and arbitrary atoms that are MSO definable from the tree order. As a consequence, the satisfiability problem for two-variable logic with arbitrary predicates, two of them interpreted by linear orders, is decidable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2101.03866,
title = {Register Automata with Extrema Constraints, and an Application to Two-Variable Logic},
author = {Szymon Toruńczyk and Thomas Zeume},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.03866},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
The short version of this article appeared in the conference proceedings of LICS 2020