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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. Data values can be compared wrt.\ equality. As the satisfiability problem for this logic is undecidable in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Benedikt Bollig , Arnaud Sangnier , Olivier Stietel

We study the separation of positive and negative data examples in terms of description logic concepts in the presence of an ontology. In contrast to previous work, we add a signature that specifies a subset of the symbols that can be used…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Hadrien Pulcini , Frank Wolter

The uniform one-dimensional fragment of first-order logic was introduced a few years ago as a generalization of the two-variable fragment of first-order logic to contexts involving relations of arity greater than two. Quantifiers in this…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Emanuel Kieroński

This paper presents matching logic, a first-order logic (FOL) variant for specifying and reasoning about structure by means of patterns and pattern matching. Its sentences, the patterns, are constructed using variables, symbols, connectives…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Grigore Rosu

Relational descriptions have been used in formalizing diverse computational notions, including, for example, operational semantics, typing, and acceptance by non-deterministic machines. We therefore propose a (restricted) logical theory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-09-02 Andrew Gacek , Dale Miller , Gopalan Nadathur

Adding modular predicates yields a generalization of first-order logic FO over words. The expressive power of FO[<,MOD] with order comparison $x<y$ and predicates for $x \equiv i \mod n$ has been investigated by Barrington, Compton,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Manfred Kufleitner , Tobias Walter

We present a logical separability analysis for a functional quantum computation language. This logic is inspired by previous works on logical analysis of aliasing for imperative functional programs. Both analyses share similarities notably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-13 F. Prost , C. Zerrari

In this paper we initiate a study of first-order rich groups, i.e., groups where the first-order logic has the same power as the weak second order logic. Surprisingly, there are quite a lot of finitely generated rich groups, they are…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Olga Kharlampovich , Alexei Myasnikov , Mahmood Sohrabi

In a recent paper, Enayat and Le lyk [2024] show that second order arithmetic and countable set theory are not definitionally equivalent. It is well known that these theories are biinterpretable. Thus, we have a pair of natural theories…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Jason Chen , Toby Meadows

This paper considers the complexity and properties of KLM-style preferential reasoning in the setting of propositional logic with team semantics and dependence atoms, also known as propositional dependence logic. Preferential team-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Kai Sauerwald , Arne Meier , Juha Kontinen

The class of weak BCK-algebras is obtained by weakening one of standard BCK axioms. It is known that every weak BCK-algebra is completely determined by the structure of its initial segments. We review several natural classes of commutative…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-02-10 Janis Cirulis

We study fragments of dependence logic defined either by restricting the number k of universal quantifiers or the width of dependence atoms in formulas. We find the sublogics of existential second-order logic corresponding to these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Arnaud Durand , Juha Kontinen

Quantum mechanical weak values of projection operators have been used to answer which-way questions, e.g. to trace which arms in a multiple Mach-Zehnder setup a particle may have traversed from a given initial to a prescribed final state. I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 B. E. Y. Svensson

The fuzzy modality `probably` is interpreted over probabilistic type spaces by taking expected truth values. The arising probabilistic fuzzy description logic is invariant under probabilistic bisimilarity; more informatively, it is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Paul Wild , Lutz Schröder , Dirk Pattinson , Barbara König

Information-flow policies prescribe which information is available to a given user or subsystem. We study the problem of specifying such properties in reactive systems, which may require dynamic changes in information-flow restrictions…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Ezio Bartocci , Thomas Ferrère , Thomas A. Henzinger , Dejan Nickovic , Ana Oliveira da Costa

In the paper, the idea of describing not-yet-verified properties of quantum objects with logical many-valuedness is scrutinized. As it is argued, to promote such an idea, the following two foundational problems of many-valued quantum logic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Arkady Bolotin

We give a new proof of a theorem of Mints that the positive fragment of minimal predicate logic is decidable. The idea of the proof is to replace the eigenvariable condition of sequent calculus by an appropriate scoping mechanism. The…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Gilles Dowek , Ying Jiang

In the context of continuous first-order logic, special attention is often given to theories that are somehow continuous in an 'essential' way. A common feature of such theories is that they do not interpret any infinite discrete…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-27 James Hanson

In this paper, we introduce a logic based on team semantics, called FOT, whose expressive power is elementary, i.e., coincides with first-order logic both on the level of sentences and (possibly open) formulas, and we also show that a…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Juha Kontinen , Fan Yang

Lindstr\"om theorems characterize logics in terms of model-theoretic conditions such as Compactness and the L\"owenheim-Skolem property. Most existing characterizations of this kind concern extensions of first-order logic. But on the other…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Johan van Benthem , Balder ten Cate , Jouko Vaananen