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For fragments L of first-order logic (FO) with counting quantifiers, we consider the definability problem, which asks whether a given L-formula can be equivalently expressed by a formula in some fragment of L without counting, and the more…

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The satisfiability problem for First-order Modal Logic (\FOML) is undecidable even for simple fragments like having only unary predicates, two variables etc. Recently a new way to identify decidable fragments of \FOML has been introduced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Varad Joshi , Anantha Padmanabha

The uniform one-dimensional fragment of first-order logic was introduced a few years ago as a generalization of the two-variable fragment to contexts involving relations of arity greater than two. Quantifiers in this logic are used in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Oskar Fiuk , Emanuel Kieronski

We stratify intuitionistic first-order logic over $(\forall,\to)$ into fragments determined by the alternation of positive and negative occurrences of quantifiers (Mints hierarchy). We study the decidability and complexity of these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Aleksy Schubert , Paweł Urzyczyn , Konrad Zdanowski

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

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Benedikt Bollig , Arnaud Sangnier , Olivier Stietel

Quantified modal logic provides a natural logical language for reasoning about modal attitudes even while retaining the richness of quantification for referring to predicates over domains. But then most fragments of the logic are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam , Yanjing Wang

We consider first-order logic over the subword ordering on finite words, where each word is available as a constant. Our first result is that the $\Sigma_1$ theory is undecidable (already over two letters). We investigate the decidability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Simon Halfon , Philippe Schnoebelen , Georg Zetzsche

The finite satisfiability problem of monadic second order logic is decidable only on classes of structures of bounded tree-width by the classic result of Seese (1991). We prove the following problem is decidable: Input: (i) A monadic second…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Tomer Kotek , Helmut Veith , Florian Zuleger

Decision procedures can be either theory-specific, e.g., Presburger arithmetic, or theory-generic, applying to an infinite number of user-definable theories. Variant satisfiability is a theory-generic procedure for quantifier-free…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Raúl Gutiérrez , José Meseguer

We contribute to the refined understanding of the language-logic-algebra interplay in the context of first-order properties of countable words. We establish decidable algebraic characterizations of one variable fragment of FO as well as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bharat Adsul , Saptarshi Sarkar , A. V. Sreejith

The uniform one-dimensional fragment of first-order logic was introduced a few years ago as a generalization of the two-variable fragment of first-order logic to contexts involving relations of arity greater than two. Quantifiers in this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Emanuel Kieroński

This paper explores the computational complexity of various natural one-variable fragments of first-order modal logics with the addition of counting quantifiers, over both constant and varying domains. The addition of counting quantifiers…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Christopher Hampson

While modal extensions of decidable fragments of first-order logic are usually undecidable, their monodic counterparts, in which formulas in the scope of modal operators have at most one free variable, are typically decidable. This only…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Alessandro Artale , Christopher Hampson , Roman Kontchakov , Andrea Mazzullo , Frank Wolter

We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic over finite unranked trees. We work with signatures consisting of some unary predicates and the binary navigational predicates child, right sibling,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Witold Charatonik , Emanuel Kieroński , Filip Mazowiecki

We prove that the positive fragment of first-order intuitionistic logic in the language with two variables and a single monadic predicate letter, without constants and equality, is undecidable. This holds true regardless of whether we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mikhail Rybakov , Dmitry Shkatov

Recently, symbolic structures were proposed as finite representations of potentially infinite first-order structures, where Linear Integer Arithmetic terms and formulas define the domain and interpretations of a structure. We generalize…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Neta Elad , Sharon Shoham

We study elementary modal logics, i.e. modal logic considered over first-order definable classes of frames. The classical semantics of modal logic allows infinite structures, but often practical applications require to restrict our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop , Piotr Witkowski

We study extensions of expressive decidable fragments of first-order logic with circumscription, in particular the two-variable fragment FO$^2$, its extension C$^2$ with counting quantifiers, and the guarded fragment GF. We prove that if…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Carsten Lutz , Quentin Manière

We consider the one-variable fragment of first-order logic extended with Presburger constraints. The logic is designed in such a way that it subsumes the previously-known fragments extended with counting, modulo counting or cardinality…

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