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We prove the decidability of Ticket Entailment. Raised by Anderson and Belnap within the framework of relevance logic, this question is equivalent to the question of the decidability of type inhabitation in simply-typed combinatory logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-06 Vincent Padovani

We show that the decidability of the first-order theory of the language that combines Boolean algebras of sets of uninterpreted elements with Presburger arithmetic operations. We thereby disprove a recent conjecture that this theory is…

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

We propose a unifying additive theory for standard conventions in Combinatorial Game Theory, including normal-, mis\`ere- and scoring-play, studied by Berlekamp, Conway, Dorbec, Ettinger, Guy, Larsson, Milley, Neto, Nowakowski, Renault,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Urban Larsson , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

In this paper we consider a fragment of the first-order theory of the real numbers that includes systems of equations of continuous functions in bounded domains, and for which all functions are computable in the sense that it is possible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Peter Franek , Stefan Ratschan , Piotr Zgliczynski

We consider the two-variable fragment of first-order logic with one distinguished binary predicate constrained to be interpreted as a transitive relation. The finite satisfiability problem for this logic is shown to be decidable, in triply…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Ian Pratt-Hartmann

Robot game is a two-player vector addition game played on the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^n$. Both players have sets of vectors and in each turn the vector chosen by a player is added to the current configuration vector of the game. One of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Reino Niskanen , Igor Potapov , Julien Reichert

Recently it was shown that it is undecidable whether a term rewrite system can be proved terminating by a polynomial interpretation in the natural numbers. In this paper we show that this is also the case when restricting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Fabian Mitterwallner , Aart Middeldorp , René Thiemann

In this paper we prove undecidability of finite systems of equations in free Lie algebras of rank at least three over an arbitrary field. We show that the ring of integers $\mathbb{Z}$ is interpretable by positive existential formulas in…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-25 Olga Kharlampovich , Alexei Myasnikov

Let $P$ be a $k$-ary predicate over a finite alphabet. Consider a random CSP$(P)$ instance $I$ over $n$ variables with $m$ constraints. When $m \gg n$ the instance $I$ will be unsatisfiable with high probability, and we want to find a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-28 Sarah R. Allen , Ryan O'Donnell , David Witmer

Different classes of automata on infinite words have different expressive power. Deciding whether a given language $L \subseteq \Sigma^\omega$ can be expressed by an automaton of a desired class can be reduced to deciding a game between…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Orna Kupferman , Salomon Sickert

Building on Lin's breakthrough MIP$^{co}$ = coRE and an encoding of non-local games as universal sentences in the language of tracial von Neumann algebras, we show that locally universal tracial von Neumann algebras have undecidable…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Jananan Arulseelan , Aareyan Manzoor

This paper, and its companion [BCLV24], are devoted to a negative resolution of the Aldous--Lyons Conjecture [AL07, Ald07]. In this part we study tailored non-local games. This is a subclass of non-local games -- combinatorial objects which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Lewis Bowen , Michael Chapman , Thomas Vidick

This document provides a formal proof of Birkhoff's completeness theorem for multi-sorted algebras which states that any equational entailment valid in all models is also provable in the equational theory. More precisely, if a certain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Andreas Abel

Let $\psi$ be a sentence in the counting monadic second-order logic of matroids and let $\mathbb{F}$ be a finite field. Hlin\v{e}n\'{y}'s Theorem says that we can test whether $\mathbb{F}$-representable matroids satisfy $\psi$ using an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Daryl Funk , Dillon Mayhew , Mike Newman

History-deterministic automata are a restricted class of nondeterministic automata where the nondeterminism while reading an input can be resolved successfully based on the prefix read so far. History-deterministic automata are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Keya Prakash

We consider applications of a finitary version of the Affine Representability theorem, which follows from recent work of Belov-Kanel, Rowen, and Vishne. Using this result we are able to show that when given a finite set of polynomial…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Jason P. Bell , Peter V. Danchev

Representation theory is shown to be incomplete in terms of enumerating all integrable limits of quantum systems. As a consequence, one can find exactly solvable Hamiltonians which have apparently strongly broken symmetry. The number of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Dimitri Kusnezov

This paper exposes a contradiction in the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC). While Godel's incompleteness theorems state that a consistent system cannot prove its consistency, they do not eliminate proofs using a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Minseong Kim

We establish that the bisimulation invariant fragment of MSO over finite transition systems is expressively equivalent over finite transition systems to modal mu-calculus, a question that had remained open for several decades. The proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Thomas Colcombet , Amina Doumane , Denis Kuperberg

We establish several results on the word problem for just infinite groups. First, for finitely generated just infinite groups we show that the word problem is uniformly decidable for presentations with recursively enumerable sets of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Alexey Talambutsa
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