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In this paper, we study three algorithmic problems involving computation trees: the optimization, solvability, and satisfiability problems. The solvability problem is concerned with recognizing computation trees that solve problems. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Mikhail Moshkov

We extend in a natural way the operation of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time, and investigate the resulting supertask theory of computability and decidability on the reals. The resulting computability theory leads to a notion of…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Andy Lewis

Recent work by Atserias and Dawar (J. Log. Comp 2019) and Tucker-Foltz (LMCS 2024) has established undefinability results in fixed-point logic with counting (FPC) corresponding to many classical complexity results from the hardness of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Anuj Dawar , Bálint Molnár

We argue that formal certification of AI alignment over open-ended or unbounded input domains is impossible under standard assumptions in computational complexity and learning theory, and characterise what remains achievable. Two…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Ayushi Agarwal

We study alternating automata with qualitative semantics over infinite binary trees: alternation means that two opposing players construct a decoration of the input tree called a run, and the qualitative semantics says that a run of the…

Models of a generalized nondeterminism are defined by limitations on nonde- terministic behavior of a computing device. A regular realizability problem is a problem of verifying existence of a special sort word in a regular language. These…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 A. Rubtsov , M. Vyalyi

For each $n\in\mathbb{N}$, let $[n]\phi$ mean "the sentence $\phi$ is true in all $\Sigma_{n+1}$-correct transitive sets." Assuming G\"odel's axiom $V = L$, we prove the following graded variant of Solovay's completeness theorem: the set of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Juan Pablo Aguilera , Fedor Pakhomov

We prove undecidability and pinpoint the place in the arithmetical hierarchy for commutative action logic, that is, the equational theory of commutative residuated Kleene lattices (action lattices), and infinitary commutative action logic,…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Stepan L. Kuznetsov

A bi-Heyting algebra validates the G\"odel-Dummett axiom $(p\to q)\vee (q\to p)$ iff the poset of its prime filters is a disjoint union of co-trees (i.e., order duals of trees). Bi-Heyting algebras of this kind are called bi-G\"odel…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Miguel Martins , Tommaso Moraschini

We prove a general Ramsey theorem for trees with a successor operation. This theorem is a common generalization of the Carlson-Simpson Theorem and the Milliken Tree Theorem for regularly branching trees. Our theorem has a number of…

We study the reverse mathematics and computability-the\-o\-re\-tic strength of (stable) Ramsey's Theorem for pairs and the related principles COH and DNR. We show that SRT$^2_2$ implies DNR over RCA$_0$ but COH does not, and answer a…

Strategy Logic with imperfect information (SLiR) is a very expressive logic designed to express complex properties of strategic abilities in distributed systems. Previous work on SLiR focused on finite systems, and showed that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Bastien Maubert , Aniello Murano , Olivier Serre

Model checking properties are often described by means of finite automata. Any particular such automaton divides the set of infinite trees into finitely many classes, according to which state has an infinite run. Building the full type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Klaus Aehlig

Optimal determinization construction of Streett automata is an important research problem because it is indispensable in numerous applications such as decision problems for tree temporal logics, logic games and system synthesis. This paper…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Cong Tian , Wensheng Wang , Zhenhua Duan

For any sufficiently strong theory of arithmetic, the set of Diophantine equations provably unsolvable in the theory is algorithmically undecidable, as a consequence of the MRDP theorem. In contrast, we show decidability of Diophantine…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Emil Jeřábek

Imitation is simple behavior which uses successful actions of others in order to deal with one's own problems. Because success of imitation generally depends on whether profit of an imitating agent coincides with those of other agents or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-23 Masahiko Ueda

We study tree games developed recently by Matteo Mio as a game interpretation of the probabilistic $\mu$-calculus. With expressive power comes complexity. Mio showed that tree games are able to encode Blackwell games and, consequently, are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Marcin Przybyłko

We consider expressions built up from binary relation names using the operators union, composition, and set difference. We show that it is undecidable to test whether a given such expression $e$ is finitely satisfiable, i.e., whether there…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Tony Tan , Jan Van den Bussche , Xiaowang Zhang

We consider the arithmetic complexity of index sets of uniformly computably enumerable families learnable under different learning criteria. We determine the exact complexity of these sets for the standard notions of finite learning,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-03-01 Achilles Beros

By Solovay's celebrated completeness result on formal provability we know that the provability logic $\mathrm GL$ describes exactly all provable structural properties for any sound and strong enough arithmetical theory with a decidable…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Joost J. Joosten