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Defeasible logic is a rule-based nonmonotonic logic, with both strict and defeasible rules, and a priority relation on rules. We show that inference in the propositional form of the logic can be performed in linear time. This contrasts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Michael J. Maher

We study a new notion of reduction between structures called enumerable functors related to the recently investigated notion of computable functors. Our main result shows that enumerable functors and effective interpretability with the…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Dino Rossegger

Defeasible statements are statements that are likely, or probable, or usually true, but may occasionally be false. Plausible reasoning makes conclusions from statements that are either facts or defeasible statements without using numbers.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 David Billington

We prove that any equational basis that defines RRA over wRRA must contain infinitely many variables. The proof uses a construction of arbitrarily large finite weakly representable but not representable relation algebras whose "small"…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Jeremy F. Alm , Robin Hirsch , Roger D. Maddux

We identify a number of decidable and undecidable fragments of first-order concatenation theory. We also give a purely universal axiomatization which is complete for the fragments we identify. Furthermore, we prove some normal-form results.

Logic · Mathematics 2018-04-18 Lars Kristiansen , Juvenal Murwanashyaka

A field $K$ in a ring language $\mathcal{L}$ is finitely undecidable if $\mbox{Cons}(\Sigma)$ is undecidable for every nonempty finite $\Sigma \subseteq \mbox{Th}(K; \mathcal{L})$. We extend a construction of Ziegler and (among other…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Brian Tyrrell

This paper demonstrates the relativity of Computability and Nondeterministic; the nondeterministic is just Turing's undecidable Decision rather than the Nondeterministic Polynomial time. Based on analysis about TM, UM, DTM, NTM, Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Jian-Ming Zhou

We introduce and study minimal (with respect to inclusion) solutions of systems of tropical linear differential equations. We describe the set of all minimal solutions for a single equation. It is shown that any tropical linear differential…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Dima Grigoriev , Cristhian Garay López

Causality has been often confused with the notion of determinism. It is mandatory to separate the two notions in view of the debate about quantum foundations. Quantum theory provides an example of causal not-deterministic theory. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Giacomo M. D'Ariano , Franco Manessi , Paolo Perinotti

Many counterexamples are known in the class of small theories due to Goncharov and Millar. The prime model of a decidable small theory is not necessarily decidable. The saturated model of a hereditarily decidable small theory is not…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Alex Gavryushkin

Two salient notions of sameness of theories are synonymy, also known as definitional equivalence, and bi-interpretability. Of these two definitional equivalence is the strictest notion. In which cases can we infer synonymy from…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Harvey M. Friedman , Albert Visser

Uncertainty may be taken to characterize inferences, their conclusions, their premises or all three. Under some treatments of uncertainty, the inferences itself is never characterized by uncertainty. We explore both the significance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Henry E. Kyburg

Modal logics are widely used in computer science. The complexity of their satisfiability problems has been an active field of research since the 1970s. We prove that even very "simple" modal logics can be undecidable: We show that there is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Edith Hemaspaandra , Henning Schnoor

We classify the irreducible projective representations of symmetric and alternating groups of minimal possible and second minimal possible dimensions, and get a lower bound for the third minimal dimension. On the way we obtain some new…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-12-19 Alexander S. Kleshchev , Pham Huu Tiep

We prove complete reducibility for an integrable module for an affine Lie algebra where the canonical central element acts non-trivially. We further prove that integrable modules does not exists for most of the super affine Lie algebras…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Eswara Rao

We consider the logic MSO+U, which is monadic second-order logic extended with the unbounding quantifier. The unbounding quantifier is used to say that a property of finite sets holds for sets of arbitrarily large size. We prove that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-02-18 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Paweł Parys , Szymon Toruńczyk

We give a survey on the theory of representation-finite and certain minimal representation-infinite algebras.The main goals are the existence of multiplicative bases and of coverings with good properties. Both are attained via…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-06 Klaus Bongartz

The general/finite PCTL satisfiability problem asks whether a given PCTL formula has a general/finite model. We show that the finite PCTL satisfiability problem is undecidable, and the general PCTL satisfiability problem is even highly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Miroslav Chodil , Antonín Kučera

We show that the unification problem `is there a substitution instance of a given formula that is provable in a given logic?' is undecidable for basic modal logics K and K4 extended with the universal modality. It follows that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Frank Wolter , Michael Zakharyaschev

It is a widespread belief that results like G\"odel's incompleteness theorems or the intrinsic randomness of quantum mechanics represent fundamental limitations to humanity's strive for scientific knowledge. As the argument goes, there are…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-08-30 Markus P. Mueller