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We consider expressions built up from binary relation names using the operators union, composition, and set difference. We show that it is undecidable to test whether a given such expression $e$ is finitely satisfiable, i.e., whether there…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-06-03 Tony Tan , Jan Van den Bussche , Xiaowang Zhang

In this paper, we consider iterative propositional calculi, which are finite sets of propositional formulas together with the rules of modus ponens and weak substitution (when formula being substituted must be already inferred). We…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-23 Grigoriy V. Bokov

We prove that the problems of representing a finite ordered complemented semigroup or finite lattice-ordered semigroup as an algebra of binary relations over a finite set are undecidable. In the case that complementation is taken with…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Murray Neuzerling

Generalizations of linear numeration systems in which the set of natural numbers is recognizable by finite automata are obtained by describing an arbitrary infinite regular language following the lexicographic ordering. For these systems of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre B. A. Lecomte , Michel Rigo

We generalize the validity criterion for the infinitary proof system of the multiplicative additive linear logic with fixed points. Our criterion is designed to take into account axioms and cuts. We show that it is sound and enjoys the cut…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-05-19 David Baelde , Amina Doumane , Denis Kuperberg , Alexis Saurin

All current investigations to analyze the derivational complexity of term rewrite systems are based on a single termination method, possibly preceded by transformations. However, the exclusive use of direct criteria is problematic due to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Harald Zankl , Martin Korp

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

The ordered structures of natural, integer, rational and real numbers are studied in this thesis. The theories of these numbers in the language of order are decidable and finitely axiomatizable. Also, their theories in the language of order…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Ziba Assadi

We produce new examples of totally imaginary infinite extensions of $\mathbb{Q}$ which have undecidable first-order theory by generalizing the methods used by Martinez-Ranero, Utreras and Videla for $\mathbb{Q}^{(2)}$. In particular, we use…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Caleb Springer

We investigate infinitary wellfounded systems for linear logic with fixed points, with transfinite branching rules indexed by some closure ordinal $\alpha$ for fixed points. Our main result is that provability in the system for some…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Anupam Das , Tikhon Pshenitsyn

We prove undecidability for every positive relevant logic extending the system axiomatized by hypothetical syllogism, prefixing, and suffixing and contained in the logic of the semilattice frame $(P_{\mathrm{fin}}(\mathbb{N}), \cup,…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Søren Brinck Knudstorp

We present a theorem about irreducibility of a polynomial that is the resultant of two others polynomials. The proof of this fact is based on the field theory. We also consider the converse theorem and some examples.

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2018-01-18 Beata Hejmej

The rewriting system sigma is the set of rules propagating explicit substitutions in the lambda-calculus with explicit substitutions. In this note, we prove the undecidability of unification modulo sigma.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Gilles Dowek

It is open whether equivalence ( f = g ) is decidable for string-to-string polyregular functions. We consider their higher-order extension based on the {\lambda}-calculus definition of polyregular functions from Boja\'nczyk (2018). In this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Grzegorz Fabiański , Rafał Stefański

Higher-order unification has been shown to be undecidable. Miller discovered the pattern fragment and subsequently showed that higher-order pattern unification is decidable and has most general unifiers. We extend the algorithm to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Zhibo Chen , Frank Pfenning

We consider the problem whether termination of affine integer loops is decidable. Since Tiwari conjectured decidability in 2004, only special cases have been solved. We complement this work by proving decidability for the case that the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl

We show that the first-order logical theory of the binary overlap-free words (and, more generally, the ${\alpha}$-free words for rational ${\alpha}$, $2 < {\alpha} \leq 7/3$), is decidable. As a consequence, many results previously obtained…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-08 L. Schaeffer , J. Shallit

Transfinite set theory including the axiom of choice supplies the following basic theorems: (1) Mappings between infinite sets can always be completed, such that at least one of the sets is exhausted. (2) The real numbers can be well…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Mueckenheim

We give an improved polynomial bound on the complexity of the equation solvability problem, or more generally, of finding the value sets of polynomials over finite nilpotent rings. Our proof depends on a result in additive combinatorics,…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Gyula Károlyi , Csaba Szabó

We consider the termination/non-termination property of a class of loops. Such loops are commonly used abstractions of real program pieces. Second-order logic is a convenient language to express non-termination. Of course, such property is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet