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Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Patrick Brosnan , Najmuddin Fakhruddin

We show that the first-order theory of Sturmian words over Presburger arithmetic is decidable. Using a general adder recognizing addition in Ostrowski numeration systems by Baranwal, Schaeffer and Shallit, we prove that the first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Philipp Hieronymi , Dun Ma , Reed Oei , Luke Schaeffer , Christian Schulz , Jeffrey Shallit

We introduce some notions of invariant elementary definability which extend the notions of first-order order-invariant definability, and, more generally, definability invariant with respect to arbitrary numerical relations. In particular,…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Steven Lindell , Henry Towsner , Scott Weinstein

We consider the concept of a local set of inference rules. A local rule set can be automatically transformed into a rule set for which bottom-up evaluation terminates in polynomial time. The local-rule-set transformation gives…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Robert Givan , David McAllester

In [6] we proved that the universal theory of infinite free lattices is (algorithmically) decidable, leaving open the problem of decidability of the full theory of an (infinite) free lattice. We solve this problem by proving that, for every…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-18 J. B. Nation , Gianluca Paolini

The first part of this article is a review of the properties expected of any local Langlands correspondence that aims to be considered "canonical," and of known results that establish some or all of these properties for specific groups. In…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Michael Harris

We show that the first-order theory of structural subtyping of non-recursive types is decidable. Let $\Sigma$ be a language consisting of function symbols (representing type constructors) and $C$ a decidable structure in the relational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

This article explores the model-dependent nature of set cardinality, emphasizing that cardinality is not absolute but varies across different axiomatic frameworks. Although Cantor's diagonal argument shows the real numbers are…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Slavica Mihaljevic Vlahovic , Branislav Dobrasin Vlahovic

Given any collection F of computable functions over the reals, we show that there exists an algorithm that, given any L_F-sentence \varphi containing only bounded quantifiers, and any positive rational number \delta, decides either "\varphi…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-01 Sicun Gao , Jeremy Avigad , Edmund Clarke

We study first-order model checking, by which we refer to the problem of deciding whether or not a given first-order sentence is satisfied by a given finite structure. In particular, we aim to understand on which sets of sentences this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Hubie Chen

We develop continuous first order logic, a variant of the logic described in \cite{Chang-Keisler:ContinuousModelTheory}. We show that this logic has the same power of expression as the framework of open Hausdorff cats, and as such extends…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-02-10 Itaï Ben Yaacov , Alexander Usvyatsov

We study first-order logic over unordered structures whose elements carry a finite number of data values from an infinite domain which can be compared wrt. equality. As the satisfiability problem for this logic is undecidable in general, in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Benedikt Bollig , Arnaud Sangnier , Olivier Stietel

Diekert, Matiyasevich and Muscholl proved that the existential first-order theory of a trace monoid over a finite alphabet is decidable. We extend this result to a natural class of trace monoids with infinitely many generators. As an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Alexis Bès , Christian Choffrut

We study finite first-order satisfiability (FSAT) in the constructive setting of dependent type theory. Employing synthetic accounts of enumerability and decidability, we give a full classification of FSAT depending on the first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dominik Kirst , Dominique Larchey-Wendling

Recently, a classical approach to continuous structures has been proposed in [ABBMZ] and [Z] that extends the class of structures falling under the scope of [HI] or [BBHU]. These articles introduce the notion of structures with a standard…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Silvia Barbina , Riccardo Camerlo , Domenico Zambella

Based on Gandy's principles for models of computation we give category-theoretic axioms describing locally deterministic updates to finite objects. Rather than fixing a particular category of states, we describe what properties such a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Joseph Razavi , Andrea Schalk

We show that the first-order logical theory of the binary overlap-free words (and, more generally, the ${\alpha}$-free words for rational ${\alpha}$, $2 < {\alpha} \leq 7/3$), is decidable. As a consequence, many results previously obtained…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 L. Schaeffer , J. Shallit

We investigate the decidability of the definability problem for fragments of first order logic over finite words enriched with modular predicates. Our approach aims toward the most generic statements that we could achieve, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-16 Luc Dartois , Charles Paperman

We introduce the notions of definable amenability and extreme definable amenability for groups in continuous structures and conduct an extensive analysis of them, drawing parallels with the classical first-order case. We characterize both…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Juan Felipe Carmona , Alf Onshuus

We study an extension of first-order logic that allows to express cardinality conditions in a similar way as SQL's COUNT operator. The corresponding logic FOC(P) was introduced by Kuske and Schweikardt (LICS'17), who showed that query…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Martin Grohe , Nicole Schweikardt