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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

Over the past two decades several fragments of first-order logic have been identified and shown to have good computational and algorithmic properties, to a great extent as a result of appropriately describing the image of the standard…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Lidia Tendera

We show that over the class of linear orders with additional binary relations satisfying some monotonicity conditions, monadic first-order logic has the three-variable property. This generalizes (and gives a new proof of) several known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Marie Fortin

Local-order-invariant (first-order) logic is an extension of first-order logic where formulae have access to a ternary local order relation on the Gaifman graph, provided that the truth value does not depend on the specific order relation…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Derek Aoki

We propose a fragment of many-sorted second order logic called EQSMT and show that checking satisfiability of sentences in this fragment is decidable. EQSMT formulae have an $\exists^*\forall^*$ quantifier prefix (over variables, functions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-28 P. Madhusudan , Umang Mathur , Shambwaditya Saha , Mahesh Viswanathan

We prove that the theory of Monadic Second-Order logic (MSO) of the infinite binary tree extended with qualitative path-measure quantifier is undecidable. This quantifier says that the set of infinite paths in the tree that satisfies some…

We define a logic of propositional formula schemata adding to the syntax of propositional logic indexed propositions and iterated connectives ranging over intervals parameterized by arithmetic variables. The satisfiability problem is shown…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Vincent Aravantinos , Ricardo Caferra , Nicolas Peltier

We show that for any $i > 0$, it is decidable, given a regular language, whether it is expressible in the $\Sigma_i[<]$ fragment of first-order logic FO[<]. This settles a question open since 1971. Our main technical result relies on the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Corentin Barloy , Michaël Cadilhac , Charles Paperman , Howard Straubing

We deal with the monadic (second-order) theory of order. We prove all known results in a unified way, show a general way of reduction, prove more results and show the limitation on extending them. We prove (CH) that the monadic theory of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Saharon Shelah

The classical decision problem, as it is understood today, is the quest for a delineation between the decidable and the undecidable parts of first-order logic based on elegant syntactic criteria. In this paper, we treat the concept of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Marco Voigt

In the propositional modal (and algebraic) treatment of two-variable first-order logic equality is modelled by a `diagonal' constant, interpreted in square products of universal frames as the identity (also known as the `diagonal')…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Christopher Hampson , Stanislav Kikot , Agi Kurucz

The uniform one-dimensional fragment U1 is a recently introduced extension of the two-variable fragment FO2. The logic U1 enables the use of relation symbols of all arities and thereby extends the scope of applications of FO2. In this…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-21 Jonne Iso-Tuisku , Antti Kuusisto

We investigate the decidability of model-checking logics of time, knowledge and probability, with respect to two epistemic semantics: the clock and synchronous perfect recall semantics in partially observed discrete-time Markov chains.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Ron van der Meyden , Manas K. Patra

It is known that the set of tautologies of second order intuitionistic propositional logic, $\mathrm{IPC} 2$, is undecidable. Here, we prove that the sets of formulas of $\mathrm{IPC} 2$ which are true in the algebra of open subsets of…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Konrad Zdanowski

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

A special case of the satisfiability problem, in which the clauses have a hierarchical structure, is shown to be solvable in linear time, assuming that the clauses have been represented in a convenient way.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Donald E. Knuth

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

Tarski initiated a logic-based approach to formal geometry that studies first-order structures with a ternary betweenness relation (\beta) and a quaternary equidistance relation (\equiv). Tarski established, inter alia, that the first-order…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Antti Kuusisto , Jeremy Meyers , Jonni Virtema

We consider the logic MSO+U, which is monadic second-order logic extended with the unbounding quantifier. The unbounding quantifier is used to say that a property of finite sets holds for sets of arbitrarily large size. We prove that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Paweł Parys , Szymon Toruńczyk

The ordered structures of natural, integer, rational and real numbers are studied here. It is known that the theories of these numbers in the language of order are decidable and finitely axiomatizable. Also, their theories in the language…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Ziba Assadi , Saeed Salehi