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We investigate the complexity of the model checking problem for intuitionistic and modal propositional logics over transitive Kripke models. More specific, we consider intuitionistic logic IPC, basic propositional logic BPL, formal…

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Nonnegative Matrix Factorization (NMF) is a data analysis technique which allows compression and interpretation of nonnegative data. NMF became widely studied after the publication of the seminal paper by Lee and Seung (Learning the Parts…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-10-24 Nicolas Gillis , François Glineur

In runtime verification, monitoring consists of analyzing the current execution of a system and determining, on the basis of the observed finite trace, whether all its possible continuations satisfy or violate a given specification. This is…

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This paper shows that the satisfiability problem for probabilistic CTL (PCTL, for short) is undecidable. By a reduction from $1\frac{1}{2}$-player games with PCTL winning objectives, we establish that the PCTL satisfiability problem is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Souymodip Chakraborty , Joost-Pieter Katoen

While model checking PCTL for Markov chains is decidable in polynomial-time, the decidability of PCTL satisfiability, as well as its finite model property, are long standing open problems. While general satisfiability is an intriguing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Nathalie Bertrand , John Fearnley , Sven Schewe

In this paper, we investigate the verification of quantized Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), where some fixed-width arithmetic is used to represent numbers. We introduce the linear-constrained validity (LVP) problem for verifying GNNs…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Marco Sälzer , François Schwarzentruber , Nicolas Troquard

This paper studies Linear Temporal Logic over Finite Traces (LTLf) where proposition letters are replaced with first-order formulas interpreted over arbitrary theories, in the spirit of Satisfiability Modulo Theories. The resulting logic,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

There has been a great of work on characterizing the complexity of the satisfiability and validity problem for modal logics. In particular, Ladner showed that the validity problem for all logics between K, T, and S4 is {\sl…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Leandro Chaves Rego

Using the notion of visibility representations, our paper establishes a new property of instances of the Nondeterministic Constraint Logic (NCL) problem (a PSPACE-complete problem that is very convenient to prove the PSPACE-hardness of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Michael C. Chavrimootoo

Given an array with defective elements, failure correction (FC) aims at finding a new set of weights for the working elements so that the properties of the original pattern can be recovered. Unlike several FC techniques available in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 F. Zardi , G. Oliveri , M. Salucci , A. Massa

We study the guarded negation fragment of transitive closure logic (GNTC). We show that the satisfiability problem for GNTC is 2ExpTime-complete, by establishing the following reductions: (i) a polynomial-time reduction from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Diego Figueira , Santiago Figueira , Yoshiki Nakamura

In this work, we study the discrete logarithm problem in the context of TFNP - the complexity class of search problems with a syntactically guaranteed existence of a solution for all instances. Our main results establish that suitable…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Pavel Hubáček , Jan Václavek

The coalgebraic $\mu$-calculus provides a generic semantic framework for fixpoint logics with branching types beyond the standard relational setup, e.g. probabilistic, weighted, or game-based. Previous work on the coalgebraic $\mu$-calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Daniel Hausmann , Lutz Schröder

We analyze the complexity of decision problems for Boolean Nonassociative Lambek Calculus admitting empty antecedent of sequents ($\mathsf{BFNL^*}$), and the consequence relation of Distributive Full Nonassociative Lambek Calculus…

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For typical first-order logical theories, satisfying assignments have a straightforward finite representation that can directly serve as a certificate that a given assignment satisfies the given formula. For non-linear real arithmetic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Enrico Lipparini , Stefan Ratschan

Let $L_{>\lambda}(\mathcal{A})$ and $L_{\geq\lambda}(\mathcal{A})$ be the languages recognized by {\em measure many 1-way quantum finite automata (MM-QFA)} (or,{\em enhanced 1-way quantum finite automata(EQFA)}) $\mathcal{A}$ with strict…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tianrong Lin

We analyze affine reachability problems in dimensions 1 and 2. We show that the reachability problem for 1-register machines over the integers with affine updates is PSPACE-hard, hence PSPACE-complete, strengthening a result by Finkel et…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Stefan Jaax , Stefan Kiefer

The self-consistent field method utilized for solving the Hartree-Fock (HF) problem and the closely related Kohn-Sham problem, is typically thought of as one of the cheapest methods available to quantum chemists. This intuition has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 James D. Whitfield , Zoltán Zimborás

Constraint automata are an adaptation of B\"uchi-automata that process data words where the data comes from some relational structure S. Every transition of such an automaton comes with constraints in terms of the relations of S. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Alexander Kartzow , Thomas Weidner

A problem is \emph{downward self-reducible} if it can be solved efficiently given an oracle that returns solutions for strictly smaller instances. In the decisional landscape, downward self-reducibility is well studied and it is known that…

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