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We present a first-order linear-time temporal logic for reasoning about the evolution of directed graphs. Its semantics is based on the counterpart paradigm, thus allowing our logic to represent the creation, duplication, merging, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Fabio Gadducci , Andrea Laretto , Davide Trotta

Nominal techniques provide a mathematically principled approach to dealing with names and variable binding in programming languages. This paper explores an attempt to make nominal techniques accessible as an Agda library. We aim for a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Murdoch J. Gabbay , Orestis Melkonian

There are multiple ways to formalise the metatheory of type theory. For some purposes, it is enough to consider specific models of a type theory, but sometimes it is necessary to refer to the syntax, for example in proofs of canonicity and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Ambrus Kaposi , András Kovács , Nicolai Kraus

We give an algebraic quantifier elimination algorithm for the first-order theory over any given finite field using Gr\"obner basis methods. The algorithm relies on the strong Nullstellensatz and properties of elimination ideals over finite…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Sicun Gao , André Platzer , Edmund M. Clarke

This paper presents a way of formalising definite descriptions with a binary quantifier $\iota$, where $\iota x[F, G]$ is read as `The $F$ is $G$'. Introduction and elimination rules for $\iota$ in a system of intuitionist negative free…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Nils Kürbis

Elimination of quantifiers is shown to fail dramatically for a group of well-known mathematical theories (classically enjoying the property) against a wide range of relevant logical backgrounds. Furthermore, it is suggested that only by…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Guillermo Badia , Andrew Tedder

We describe a formalization of higher-order rewriting theory and formally prove that an AFS is strongly normalizing if it can be interpreted in a well-founded domain. To do so, we use Coq, which is a proof assistant based on dependent type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Deivid Vale , Niels van der Weide

We propose a new quantifier elimination algorithm for the theory of linear real arithmetic. This algorithm uses as subroutine satisfiability modulo this theory, a problem for which there are several implementations available. The quantifier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-09-04 David Monniaux

We prove that the theory of the models constructible using finitely many cofinality quantifiers - $C_{\lambda_{1},...,\lambda_{n}}^{*}$ and $C_{<\lambda_{1},...,<\lambda_{n}}^{*}$ for $\lambda_{1},...,\lambda_{n}$ regular cardinals - is…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Ur Ya'ar

Formalising the pi-calculus is an illuminating test of the expressiveness of logical frameworks and mechanised metatheory systems, because of the presence of name binding, labelled transitions with name extrusion, bisimulation, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Roly Perera , James Cheney

We develop formal theories of conversion for Church-style lambda-terms with Pi-types in first-order syntax using one-sorted variables names and Stoughton's multiple substitutions. We then formalize the Pure Type Systems along some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sebastián Urciuoli

All known quantifier elimination procedures for Presburger arithmetic require doubly exponential time for eliminating a single block of existentially quantified variables. It has even been claimed in the literature that this upper bound is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Christoph Haase , Shankara Narayanan Krishna , Khushraj Madnani , Om Swostik Mishra , Georg Zetzsche

We investigate an extension of nominal many-sorted signatures in which abstraction has a form of instantiation, called generalised concretion, as elimination operator (similarly to lambda-calculi). Expressions are then classified using a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Maribel Fernández , Miguel Pagano , Nora Szasz , Álvaro Tasistro

In 1985, van den Dries showed that the theory of the reals with a predicate for the integer powers of two admits quantifier elimination in an expanded language, and is hence decidable. He gave a model-theoretic argument, which provides no…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jeremy Avigad , Yimu Yin

We consider existential problems over the reals. Extended quantifier elimination generalizes the concept of regular quantifier elimination by providing in addition answers, which are descriptions of possible assignments for the quantified…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Marek Kosta , Thomas Sturm , Andreas Dolzmann

G\"odel's ontological proof has been analysed for the first-time with an unprecedent degree of detail and formality with the help of higher-order theorem provers. The following has been done (and in this order): A detailed natural deduction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Christoph Benzmüller , Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) was the first practical means for doing real quantifier elimination (QE), and is still a major method, with many improvements since Collins' original method. Nevertheless, its complexity is…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2023-12-08 James H. Davenport , Zak P. Tonks , Ali K. Uncu

We introduce a universe of regular datatypes with variable binding information, for which we define generic formation and elimination (i.e. induction /recursion) operators. We then define a generic alpha-equivalence relation over the types…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Ernesto Copello , Nora Szasz , Álvaro Tasistro

Exact real computation is an alternative to floating-point arithmetic where operations on real numbers are performed exactly, without the introduction of rounding errors. When proving the correctness of an implementation, one can focus…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Michal Konečný , Sewon Park , Holger Thies

Work of Eagle, Farah, Goldbring, Kirchberg, and Vignati shows that the only separable C*-algebras that admit quantifier elimination in continuous logic are $\mathbb{C},$ $\mathbb{C}^2,$ $M_2(\mathbb{C}),$ and the continuous functions on the…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-05-31 Christopher J. Eagle , Todd Schmid