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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Cinzia Di Giusto , Davide Ferré , Etienne Lozes , Nicolas Nisse

Translational tiling problems are among the most fundamental and representative undecidable problems in all fields of mathematics. Greenfeld and Tao obtained two remarkable results on the undecidability of translational tiling in recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Chao Yang , Zhujun Zhang

The main objective of this paper is the following two results. (1) There exists a computable bi-orderable group that does not have a computable bi-ordering; (2) There exists a bi-orderable, two-generated recursively presented solvable group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Arman Darbinyan

The constraint satisfaction probem (CSP) is a well-acknowledged framework in which many combinatorial search problems can be naturally formulated. The CSP may be viewed as the problem of deciding the truth of a logical sentence consisting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Hubie Chen

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP for short) is a generalization of the well-studied Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The PCSP has its roots in such classic problems as the Approximate Graph Coloring and the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Arash Beikmohammadi , Andrei A. Bulatov

The reachability analysis of recursive programs that communicate asynchronously over reliable FIFO channels calls for restrictions to ensure decidability. Our first result characterizes communication topologies with a decidable reachability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alexander Heussner , Jérôme Leroux , Anca Muscholl , Grégoire Sutre

Quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) have a wide range of applications in signal processing and wireless communications. Non-convex QCQPs are NP-hard in general. Existing approaches relax the non-convexity using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Omar Mehanna , Kejun Huang , Balasubramanian Gopalakrishnan , Aritra Konar , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

The Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a generalization of the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) that includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. Barto [LICS '19] has shown that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kristina Asimi , Libor Barto

We consider the Membership and the Half-Space Reachability problems for matrices in dimensions two and three. Our first main result is that the Membership Problem is decidable for finitely generated sub-semigroups of the Heisenberg group…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Thomas Colcombet , Joël Ouaknine , Pavel Semukhin , James Worrell

We establish a connection between the generalized conjugacy problem for a $G$-by-$\mathbb{Z}$ group, $GCP(G \rtimes \mathbb{Z})$, and two algorithmic problems for $G$: the generalized Brinkmann's conjugacy problem, $GBrCP(G)$, and the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-21 André Carvalho

The fixed template Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problem (PCSP) is a recently proposed significant generalization of the fixed template CSP, which includes approximation variants of satisfiability and graph coloring problems. All the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Libor Barto

Maximum satisfiability is a canonical NP-hard optimization problem that appears empirically hard for random instances. Let us say that a Conjunctive normal form (CNF) formula consisting of $k$-clauses is $p$-satisfiable if there exists a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dimitris Achlioptas , Assaf Naor , Yuval Peres

$\kC$ clustering is a fundamental classification problem, where the task is to categorize the given collection of entities into $k$ clusters and come up with a representative for each cluster, so that the maximum distance between an entity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Farehe Soheil , Kirill Simonov , Tobias Friedrich

Every distributed system -- databases, networks, postal services, CPU caches -- is a message-passing system. Every message-passing system is a growing causal log observed by a set of observers. We present Light Cone Consistency (LCC), a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rob Landers , Kaben Kramer

Pearl's Causal Hierarchy (PCH) is a central framework for reasoning about probabilistic, interventional, and counterfactual statements, yet the satisfiability problem for PCH formulas is computationally intractable in almost all classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Robert Ganian , Marlene Gründel , Simon Wietheger

Classification problems have been introduced by M. Ziegler as a generalization of promise problems. In this paper we are concerned with solvability and unsolvability questions with respect to a given set or language family, especially with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Hermann K. -G. Walter , Ulrike Brandt

We study the computational complexity of fundamental problems over the $p$-adic numbers ${\mathbb Q}_p$ and the $p$-adic integers ${\mathbb Z}_p$. Gu\'epin, Haase, and Worrell proved that checking satisfiability of systems of linear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Arno Fehm , Manuel Bodirsky

We study computable PAC (CPAC) learning as introduced by Agarwal et al. (2020). First, we consider the main open question of finding characterizations of proper and improper CPAC learning. We give a characterization of a closely related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Tom F. Sterkenburg

In this paper, we consider the {\it generalized polynomial complementarity problem} (GPCP), which covers the recently introduced {\it polynomial complementarity problem} (PCP) and the well studied {\it tensor complementarity problem} (TCP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Liyun Ling , Chen Ling , Hongjin He

We introduce a first-order theory of finite full binary trees and then identify decidable and undecidable fragments of this theory. We show that the analogue of Hilbert`s 10th Problem is undecidable by constructing a many-to-one reduction…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Juvenal Murwanashyaka