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Instruction sequence is a key concept in practice, but it has as yet not come prominently into the picture in theoretical circles. This paper concerns instruction sequences, the behaviours produced by them under execution, the interaction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-05-07 J. A. Bergstra , C. A. Middelburg

The halting problem is undecidable --- but can it be solved for "most" inputs? This natural question was considered in a number of papers, in different settings. We revisit their results and show that most of them can be easily proven in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-11 Laurent Bienvenu , Damien Desfontaines , Alexander Shen

We study various formulations of the completeness of first-order logic phrased in constructive type theory and mechanised in the Coq proof assistant. Specifically, we examine the completeness of variants of classical and intuitionistic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yannick Forster , Dominik Kirst , Dominik Wehr

We present a generalization of first-order unification to a term algebra where variable indexing is part of the object language. We exploit variable indexing by associating some sequences of variables ($X_0,\ X_1,\ X_2,\dots$) with a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-12 David M. Cerna

We provide a complete characterization of the solvability/impossibility of deterministic stabilizing consensus in any computing model with benign process and communication faults using point-set topology. Relying on the topologies for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ulrich Schmid , Stephan Felber , Hugo Rincon-Galeana

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Matthias Horbach , Marco Voigt , Christoph Weidenbach

We extend in a natural way the operation of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time, and investigate the resulting supertask theory of computability and decidability on the reals. The resulting computability theory leads to a notion of…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joel David Hamkins , Andy Lewis

We present a unification problem based on first-order syntactic unification which ask whether every problem in a schematically-defined sequence of unification problems is unifiable, so called loop unification. Alternatively, our problem may…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-12 David M. Cerna

We introduce two notions of effective reducibility for set-theoretical statements, based on computability with Ordinal Turing Machines (OTMs), one of which resembles Turing reducibility while the other is modelled after Weihrauch…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

Continuous reducibilities are a proven tool in computable analysis, and have applications in other fields such as constructive mathematics or reverse mathematics. We study the order-theoretic properties of several variants of the two most…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-10-22 Arno Pauly

The Turing machine, as it was presented by Turing himself, models the calculations done by a person. This means that we can compute whatever any Turing machine can compute, and therefore we are Turing complete. The question addressed here…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-05 Ramón Casares

This work deals with the definability problem by quantifier-free first-order formulas over a finite algebraic structure. We show the problem to be coNP-complete and present two decision algorithms based on a semantical characterization of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Miguel Campercholi , Mauricio Tellechea , Pablo Ventura

Formal verification using the model checking paradigm has to deal with two aspects: The system models are structured, often as products of components, and the specification logic has to be expressive enough to allow the formalization of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Stefan Wöhrle , Wolfgang Thomas

We present an extension to the $\mathtt{mathlib}$ library of the Lean theorem prover formalizing the foundations of computability theory. We use primitive recursive functions and partial recursive functions as the main objects of study, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Mario Carneiro

In his seminal paper from 1936, Alan Turing introduced the concept of non-computable real numbers and presented examples based on the algorithmically unsolvable Halting problem. We describe a different, analytically natural mechanism for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ivan O. Shevchenko , Michael Yampolsky

This paper is divided to two parts. In the first part, we provide elementary proofs for some important results in multi-objective optimization. The given proofs are so simple and short in compared to the existing ones. Also, a Pareto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Latif Pourkarimi , Majid Soleimani-damaneh

A semigroup of binary relations (under composition) on a set $X$ is \emph{complemented} if it is closed under the taking of complements within $X\times X$. We resolve a 1991 problem of Boris Schein by showing that the class of finite unary…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Robin Hirsch , Marcel Jackson , Jaš Šemrl

Computational problems are classified into computable and uncomputable problems. If there exists an effective procedure (algorithm) to compute a problem then the problem is computable otherwise it is uncomputable. Turing machines can…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Asad Khaliq

In this note, we aim to prove the finite semi-algebraic chamber decomposition theorem for K-semi(poly)stability under the assumption of the log boundedness of K-semistable degenerations. This boundedness assumption is naturally arising from…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Chuyu Zhou

Five algebraic notions of termination are formalised, analysed and compared: wellfoundedness or Noetherity, L\"ob's formula, absence of infinite iteration, absence of divergence and normalisation. The study is based on modal semirings,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Desharnais Jules , Bernhard Moeller , Struth Georg