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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Raphael M. Jungers , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Atreyee Kundu

This unpublished note is an alternate, shorter (and hopefully more readable) proof of the decidability of all minimal models. The decidability follows from a proof of the existence of a cellular term in each observational equivalence class…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-15 Vincent Padovani

We consider first-order logics of sequences ordered by the subsequence ordering, aka sequence embedding. We show that the \Sigma_2 theory is undecidable, answering a question left open by Kuske. Regarding fragments with a bounded number of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Prateek Karandikar , Philippe Schnoebelen

We show that the decidability of the first-order theory of the language that combines Boolean algebras of sets of uninterpreted elements with Presburger arithmetic operations. We thereby disprove a recent conjecture that this theory is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

The chase is a ubiquitous algorithm in database theory. However, for existential rules (aka tuple-generating dependencies), its termination is not guaranteed, and even undecidable in general. The problem of termination becomes particularly…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lukas Gerlach , Lucas Larroque , Jerzy Marcinkowski , Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja

Linear temporal logic (LTL) is a specification language for finite sequences (called traces) widely used in program verification, motion planning in robotics, process mining, and many other areas. We consider the problem of learning LTL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ritam Raha , Rajarshi Roy , Nathanaël Fijalkow , Daniel Neider

In this article, we give a precise mathematical meaning to `linear? time' that matches experimental behaviour of the algorithm. The sorting algorithm is not our own, it is a variant of radix sort with counting sort as a subroutine. The true…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Laurent Lyaudet

Given a generic semidefinite program, specified by matrices with rational entries, each coordinate of its optimal solution is an algebraic number. We study the degree of the minimal polynomials of these algebraic numbers. Geometrically,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Jiawang Nie , Kristian Ranestad , Bernd Sturmfels

We show that all--instances termination of chase is undecidable. More precisely, there is no algorithm deciding, for a given set $\cal T$ consisting of Tuple Generating Dependencies (a.k.a. Datalog$^\exists$ program), whether the $\cal…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Tomasz Gogacz , Jerzy Marcinkowski

We prove that the uniform recurrence of morphic sequences is decidable. For this we show that the number of derived sequences of uniformly recurrent morphic sequences is bounded. As a corollary we obtain that uniformly recurrent morphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-09-03 Fabien Durand

It was recently conjectured that every component of a discrete-time rational dynamical system is a solution to an algebraic difference equation that is linear in its highest-shift term (a quasi-linear equation). We prove that the conjecture…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Bertrand Teguia Tabuguia , James Worrell

In our paper [G{\l}uch, Marcinkowski, Ostropolski-Nalewaja, LICS ACM, 2018] we have solved an old problem stated in [Calvanese, De Giacomo, Lenzerini, Vardi, SPDS ACM, 2000] showing that query determinacy is undecidable for Regular Path…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Grzegorz Głuch , Jerzy Marcinkowski , Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja

We show that the nonlinear real arithmetic theory (NRA) as defined in the SMTLIB standard is undecidable. The undecidability arises from the treatment of division by zero as an uninterpreted function, which allows encoding integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dejan Jovanovic

Despite large language models' (LLMs) recent advancements, their bias and hallucination issues persist, and their ability to offer consistent preferential rankings remains underexplored. This study investigates the capacity of LLMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiutian Zhao , Ke Wang , Wei Peng

It is well-known that a symmetric matrix with its entries $\pm1$ is not positive definite. But this is not ture for symmetric tensors (hyper-matrix). In this paper, we mainly dicuss the positive (semi-)definiteness criterion of a class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Li Ye , Yisheng Song

We prove several decidability and undecidability results for the satisfiability and validity problems for languages that can express solutions to word equations with length constraints. The atomic formulas over this language are equality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-06-26 Vijay Ganesh , Mia Minnes , Armando Solar-Lezama , Martin Rinard

The problem of finding a nonzero solution of a linear recurrence $Ly = 0$ with polynomial coefficients where $y$ has the form of a definite hypergeometric sum, related to the Inverse Creative Telescoping Problem of [14][Sec. 8], has now…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Antonio Jiménez-Pastor , Marko Petkovšek

In this paper, we present a new formula for the determinant of a $4 \times 4$ matrix. We approach via the sparse optimization problem and derive the formula through the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO). Our formula…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Taehyeong Kim , Jeong-Hoon Ju , Yeongrak Kim

It is well-known that any sequence of at least N integers contains a subsequence whose sum is 0 (mod N). However, there can be very few subsequences with this property (e.g. if the initial sequence is just N 1's, then there is only one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-09-11 Ernie Croot , Christian Elsholtz

Stickelberger proved that the discriminant of a number field is congruent to 0 or 1 modulo 4. We generalize this to an arbitrary (not necessarily commutative) ring of finite rank over the integers using techniques from linear algebra. Our…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Asher Auel , Owen Biesel , John Voight