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

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One-dimensional fragment of first-order logic is obtained by restricting quantification to blocks of existential (universal) quantifiers that leave at most one variable free. We investigate this fragment over words and trees, presenting a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Emanuel Kieronski , Antti Kuusisto

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 analyse the complexity of the satisfiability problem ssmSAT for State Space Models (SSM), which asks whether an input sequence can lead the model to an accepting configuration. We find that ssmSAT is undecidable in general, reflecting…

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We investigate the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problem for probabilistic computation-tree logic (PCTL) where operators are not restricted by any step bounds. We establish decidability for several fragments containing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Jan Křetínský , Alexej Rotar

We study parameterized Constraint Satisfaction Problem for infinite constraint languages. The parameters that we study are weight of the satisfying assignment, number of constraints, maximum number of occurrences of a variable in the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Ruhollah Majdoddin

We first show that infinite satisfiability can be reduced to finite satisfiability for all prenex formulas of Separation Logic with $k\geq1$ selector fields ($\seplogk{k}$). Second, we show that this entails the decidability of the finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Mnacho Echenim , Radu Iosif , Nicolas Peltier

We address the satisfiability problem for string constraints that combine relational constraints represented by transducers, word equations, and string length constraints. This problem is undecidable in general. Therefore, we propose a new…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig Bui Phi Diep , Lukáš Holík , Petr Janků

The constraint satisfaction problem, parameterized by a relational structure, provides a general framework for expressing computational decision problems. Already the restriction to the class of all finite structures forms an interesting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jakub Rydval , Žaneta Semanišinová , Michał Wrona

Hybrid logic with binders is an expressive specification language. Its satisfiability problem is undecidable in general. If frames are restricted to N or general linear orders, then satisfiability is known to be decidable, but of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-13 Stefan Göller , Arne Meier , Martin Mundhenk , Thomas Schneider , Michael Thomas , Felix Weiss

Extensive research in the field of ontology-based query answering has led to the identification of numerous fragments of existential rules (also known as tuple-generating dependencies) that exhibit decidable answering of atomic and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja , Sebastian Rudolph

We investigate connections between SAT (the propositional satisfiability problem) and combinatorics, around the minimum degree (number of occurrences) of variables in various forms of redundancy-free boolean conjunctive normal forms…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-24 Oliver Kullmann , Xishun Zhao

Quantified Boolean Formula (QBF) is a notoriously hard generalization of \textsc{SAT}, especially from the point of view of parameterized complexity, where the problem remains intractable for most standard parameters. A recent work by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Andreas Grigorjew , Michael Lampis

In this paper, we identify a fragment of second-order logic with restricted quantification that is expressive enough to capture numerous static analysis problems (e.g. safety proving, bug finding, termination and non-termination proving,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Cristina David , Daniel Kroening , Matt Lewis

We identify complete fragments of the Simple Theory of Types with Infinity ($\mathrm{TSTI}$) and Quine's $\mathrm{NF}$ set theory. We show that $\mathrm{TSTI}$ decides every sentence $\phi$ in the language of type theory that is in one of…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Anuj Dawar , Thomas Forster , Zachiri McKenzie

We study the fluted fragment of first-order logic which is often viewed as a multi-variable non-guarded extension to various systems of description logics lacking role-inverses. In this paper we show that satisfiable fluted sentences (even…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Daumantas Kojelis

By Fagin's Theorem, NP contains precisely those problems that can be described by formulas starting with an existential second-order quantifier, followed by only first-order quantifiers (ESO formulas). Subsequent research refined this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Max Bannach , Florian Chudigiewitsch , Till Tantau

We study the fluted fragment, a decidable fragment of first-order logic with an unbounded number of variables, originally identified in 1968 by W.V. Quine. We show that the satisfiability problem for this fragment has non-elementary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-18 I. Pratt-Hartmann , W. Szwast , L. Tendera

We introduce a novel decidable fragment of first-order logic. The fragment is one-dimensional in the sense that quantification is limited to applications of blocks of existential (universal) quantifiers such that at most one variable…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Lauri Hella , Antti Kuusisto