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A natural framework for real-time specification is monadic first-order logic over the structure $(\mathbb{R},<,+1)$---the ordered real line with unary $+1$ function. Our main result is that $(\mathbb{R},<,+1)$ has the 3-variable property:…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Timos Antonopoulos , Paul Hunter , Shahab Raza , James Worrell

First-order temporal logics are notorious for their bad computational behaviour. It is known that even the two-variable monadic fragment is highly undecidable over various linear timelines, and over branching time even one-variable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Christopher Hampson , Agi Kurucz

We show that the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic with counting quantifiers are both in NEXPTIME, even when counting quantifiers are coded succinctly.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ian Pratt-Hartmann

The Guarded Fragment (GF) is a well-established decidable fragment of first-order logic. We study an extension of GF with nested equivalence relations, namely a family of distinguished binary predicates $E_1, E_2, \dots$ interpreted as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Oskar Fiuk

The one-variable fragment of a first-order logic may be viewed as an "S5-like" modal logic, where the universal and existential quantifiers are replaced by box and diamond modalities, respectively. Axiomatizations of these modal logics have…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Petr Cintula , George Metcalfe , Naomi Tokuda

We address the decision problem for a fragment of real analysis involving differentiable functions with continuous first derivatives. The proposed theory, besides the operators of Tarski's theory of reals, includes predicates for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Domenico Cantone , Gianluca Cincotti

We study the finite satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic extended with counting quantifiers (C2) and interpreted over linearly ordered structures. We show that the problem is undecidable in the case of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Witold Charatonik , Piotr Witkowski

We combine constrained literals for model representation with key concepts from first-order superposition and propositional conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) to create the new calculus Non-Redundant Clause Learning (NRCL) deciding the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Gábor Alagi , Christoph Weidenbach

We show that the finite satisfiability problem for the unary negation fragment with arbitrary number of transitive relations is decidable and 2-ExpTime-complete. Our result actually holds for a more general setting in which one can require…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Daniel Danielski , Emanuel Kieronski

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

The monadic shallow linear Horn fragment is well-known to be decidable and has many application, e.g., in security protocol analysis, tree automata, or abstraction refinement. It was a long standing open problem how to extend the fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Andreas Teucke , Christoph Weidenbach

In this work we investigate the computational complexity of the satisfiability problem of sub-fragments of the Bernays-Schoenfinkel class of first-order logic, also known as EPR (Effectively Propositional). While Bernays-Schoenfinkel is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Leroy Chew , Mikoláš Janota , Miroslav Olšák , Martin Suda

The study of various decision problems for logic fragments has a long history in computer science. This paper is on the membership problem for a fragment of first-order logic over infinite words; the membership problem asks for a given…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Manfred Kufleitner , Tobias Walter

We study the complexity of predicate logics based on team semantics. We show that the satisfiability problems of two-variable independence logic and inclusion logic are both NEXPTIME-complete. Furthermore, we show that the validity problem…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Juha Kontinen , Antti Kuusisto , Jonni Virtema

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

Term modal logics (TML) are modal logics with unboundedly many modalities, with quantification over modal indices, so that we can have formulas of the form $\exists y. \forall x. (\Box_x P(x,y) \supset\Diamond_y P(y,x))$. Like First order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Anantha Padmanabha , R. Ramanujam

Using a recently introduced algebraic framework for the classification of fragments of first-order logic, we study the complexity of the satisfiability problem for several ordered fragments of first-order logic, which are obtained from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Reijo Jaakkola

We introduce the adjacent fragment AF of first-order logic, obtained by restricting the sequences of variables occurring as arguments in atomic formulas. The adjacent fragment generalizes (after a routine renaming) the two-variable fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Daumantas Kojelis , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

The Bernays-Sch\"onfinkel first-order logic fragment over simple linear real arithmetic constraints BS(SLR) is known to be decidable. We prove that BS(SLR) clause sets with both universally and existentially quantified verification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Martin Bromberger , Irina Dragoste , Rasha Faqeh , Christof Fetzer , Markus Krötzsch , Christoph Weidenbach

We develop a semantic criterion for determining whether a given monadic modal logic axiomatizes the one-variable fragment of a predicate modal logic. We show that the criterion applies to the monadic Grzegorczyk logic $\textbf{MGrz}$, thus…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Guram Bezhanishvili , Mashiath Khan