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Quantitative separation logic (QSL) is an extension of separation logic (SL) for the verification of probabilistic pointer programs. In QSL, formulae evaluate to real numbers instead of truth values, e.g., the probability of memory-safe…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Kevin Batz , Ira Fesefeldt , Marvin Jansen , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Florian Keßler , Christoph Matheja , Thomas Noll

The first-order theory of addition over the natural numbers, known as Presburger arithmetic, is decidable in double exponential time. Adding an uninterpreted unary predicate to the language leads to an undecidable theory. We sharpen the…

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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

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 give a quantifier elimination procedure for one-parametric Presburger arithmetic, the extension of Presburger arithmetic with the function $x \mapsto t \cdot x$, where $t$ is a fixed free variable ranging over the integers. This resolves…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Alessio Mansutti , Mikhail R. Starchak

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

Large complexity classes, like the exponential time hierarchy, received little attention in terms of finding complete problems. In this work a generalization of propositional logic is investigated which fills this gap with the introduction…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Martin Lück

Separation logics are a family of extensions of Hoare logic for reasoning about programs that mutate memory. These logics are "abstract" because they are independent of any particular concrete memory model. Their assertion languages, called…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Zhe Hou , Ranald Clouston , Rajeev Gore , Alwen Tiu

We will find a lower bound on the recognition complexity of the theories that are nontrivial relative to some equivalence relation (this relation may be equality), namely, each of these theories is consistent with the formula, whose sense…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Ivan V. Latkin

We study complexity of short sentences in Presburger arithmetic (Short-PA). Here by "short" we mean sentences with a bounded number of variables, quantifiers, inequalities and Boolean operations; the input consists only of the integers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Danny Nguyen , Igor Pak

The coalgebraic $\mu$-calculus provides a generic semantic framework for fixpoint logics with branching types beyond the standard relational setup, e.g. probabilistic, weighted, or game-based. Previous work on the coalgebraic $\mu$-calculus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Daniel Hausmann , Lutz Schröder

This paper introduces a generic framework that provides sufficient conditions for guaranteeing polynomial-time decidability of fixed-negation fragments of first-order theories that adhere to certain fixed-parameter tractability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Christoph Haase , Alessio Mansutti , Amaury Pouly

In a \emph{separability problem}, we are given two sets $K$ and $L$ from a class $\mathcal{C}$, and we want to decide whether there exists a set $S$ from a class $\mathcal{S}$ such that $K\subseteq S$ and $S\cap L=\emptyset$. In this case,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Elias Rojas Collins , Chris Köcher , Georg Zetzsche

We develop a doubly-exponential decision procedure for the satisfiability problem of guarded separation logic -- a novel fragment of separation logic featuring user-supplied inductive predicates, Boolean connectives, and separating…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Jens Pagel , Christoph Matheja , Florian Zuleger

This paper provides an NP procedure that decides whether a linear-exponential system of constraints has an integer solution. Linear-exponential systems extend standard integer linear programs with exponential terms $2^x$ and remainder terms…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Dmitry Chistikov , Alessio Mansutti , Mikhail R. Starchak

We present quantitative separation logic ($\mathsf{QSL}$). In contrast to classical separation logic, $\mathsf{QSL}$ employs quantities which evaluate to real numbers instead of predicates which evaluate to Boolean values. The connectives…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Kevin Batz , Benjamin Lucien Kaminski , Joost-Pieter Katoen , Christoph Matheja , Thomas Noll

We investigate expansions of Presburger arithmetic, i.e., the theory of the integers with addition and order, with additional structure related to exponentiation: either a function that takes a number to the power of $2$, or a predicate for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Michael Benedikt , Dmitry Chistikov , Alessio Mansutti

Most automated verifiers for separation logic target the symbolic-heap fragment, disallowing both the magic-wand operator and the application of classical Boolean operators to spatial formulas. This is not surprising, as support for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Jens Pagel , Florian Zuleger

We study the complexity of satisfiability problems in probabilistic and causal reasoning. Given random variables $X_1, X_2,\ldots$ over finite domains, the basic terms are probabilities of propositional formulas over atomic events $X_i =…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Markus Bläser , Julian Dörfler , Maciej Liśkiewicz , Benito van der Zander

In this paper, we develop a novel verification technique to reason about programs featuring concurrency, pointers and randomization. While the integration of concurrency and pointers is well studied, little is known about the combination of…

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