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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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Benedikt Bollig , Arnaud Sangnier , Olivier Stietel

We show NP-completeness for several planar variants of the monotone satisfiability problem with bounded variable appearances. With one exception the presented variants have an associated bipartite graph where the vertex degree is bounded by…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Andreas Darmann , Janosch Döcker , Britta Dorn

We consider an extension of the unary negation fragment of first-order logic in which arbitrarily many binary symbols may be required to be interpreted as equivalence relations. We show that this extension has the finite model property.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-14 Daniel Danielski , Emanuel Kieronski

We introduce the class of unshreddable theories, which contains the simple and NIP theories, and prove that such theories have exactly saturated models in singular cardinals, satisfying certain set-theoretic hypotheses. We also give…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-04-19 Itay Kaplan , Nicholas Ramsey , Saharon Shelah

We study the two-variable fragments D^2 and IF^2 of dependence logic and independence-friendly logic. We consider the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems of these logics and show that for D^2, both problems are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Juha Kontinen , Antti Kuusisto , Peter Lohmann , Jonni Virtema

Given a finite structure $M$ and property $p$, it is a natural to study the degree of satisfiability of $p$ in $M$; i.e. to ask: what is the probability that uniformly randomly chosen elements in $M$ satisfy $p$? In group theory, a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , Zoltan A. Kocsis

We study the satisfiability problem for a modal logic expressing knowing-how assertions, which captures an agent's ability to achieve a given goal under the standard semantics based on linear plans. Our main result shows that satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Carlos Areces , Pablo Barceló , Valentin Cassano , Pablo F. Castro , Stéphane Demri , Raul Fervari

The Guarded Fragment (GF) is a well-established decidable fragment of first-order logic. We study an extension of GF with nested equivalence relations, namely a family of distinguished binary predicates $E_1, E_2, \dots$ interpreted as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Oskar Fiuk

We study the guarded negation fragment of transitive closure logic (GNTC). We show that the satisfiability problem for GNTC is 2ExpTime-complete, by establishing the following reductions: (i) a polynomial-time reduction from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Diego Figueira , Santiago Figueira , Yoshiki Nakamura

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

Nfer is a Runtime Verification language for the analysis of event traces that applies rules to create hierarchies of time intervals. This work examines the complexity of the evaluation and satisfiability problems for the data-free fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sean Kauffman , Kim Guldstrand Larsen , Martin Zimmermann

It was recently shown \cite{STV} that satisfiability is polynomially solvable when the incidence graph is an interval bipartite graph (an interval graph turned into a bipartite graph by omitting all edges within each partite set). Here we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Serge Gaspers , Christos Papadimitriou , Sigve Hortemo Saether , Jan Arne Telle

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 introduce the adjacent fragment AF of first-order logic, obtained by restricting the sequences of variables occurring as arguments in atomic formulas. The adjacent fragment generalizes (after a routine renaming) the two-variable fragment…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Daumantas Kojelis , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

We consider the one-variable fragment of first-order logic extended with Presburger constraints. The logic is designed in such a way that it subsumes the previously-known fragments extended with counting, modulo counting or cardinality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Bartosz Bednarczyk

We consider quantifier-free spatial logics, designed for qualitative spatial representation and reasoning in AI, and extend them with the means to represent topological connectedness of regions and restrict the number of their connected…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Roman Kontchakov , Ian Pratt-Hartmann , Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

Given the family $P$ of all nonempty subsets of a set $U$ of alternatives, a choice over $U$ is a function $c \colon \Omega \to P$ such that $\Omega \subseteq P$ and $c(B) \subseteq B$ for all menus $B \in \Omega$. A choice is total if…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Domenico Cantone , Alfio Giarlotta , Pietro Maugeri , Stephen Watson

Satisfiability checking for monotone modal logic is known to be (only) NP-complete. We show that this remains true when the logic is extended with aconjunctive and alternation-free fixpoint operators as well as the universal modality; the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Daniel Hausmann , Lutz Schröder

The $P$ versus $NP$ problem is still unsolved. But there are several oracles with $P$ unequal $NP$ relative to them. Here we will prove, that $P\not=NP$ relative to a $P$-complete oracle. In this paper, we use padding arguments as the proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Reiner Czerwinski

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