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Security properties of real-time systems often involve reasoning about hyper-properties, as opposed to properties of single executions or trees of executions. These hyper-properties need to additionally be expressive enough to reason about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Nabarun Deka , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

Guaranteeing the validity of concurrent operations on distributed objects is a key property for ensuring reliability and consistency in distributed systems. Usually, the methods for validating these operations, if present, are wired in the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Antonio Fernández Anta , Chryssis Georgiou , Nicolas Nicolaou , Antonio Russo

We study the uniform verification problem for infinite state processes, which consists of proving that the parallel composition of an arbitrary number of processes satisfies a temporal property. Our practical motivation is to build a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Alejandro Sánchez , César Sánchez

Bell's theorem proves only that hidden variables evolving in true physical time can't exist; still the theorem's meaning is usually interpreted intolerably wide. The concept of hidden time (and, in general, hidden space-time) is introduced.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel V. Kurakin

Beginning with Turing's seminal work in 1950, artificial intelligence proposes that consciousness can be simulated by a Turing machine. This implies a potential theory of everything where the universe is a simulation on a computer, which…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Blake Wilson , Ethan Dickey , Vaishnavi Iyer , Sabre Kais

We consider several types of non-existence theorems for functors. For example, there are no nontrivial functors from the category of groups (or the category of pointed sets, or vector spaces) to any small category. Another type of questions…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Emmanuel Dror Farjoun , Sergei O. Ivanov , Aleksandr Krasilnikov , Anatolii Zaikovskii

One of the fundamental results in computability is the existence of well-defined functions that cannot be computed. In this paper we study the effects of data representation on computability; we show that, while for each possible way of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-06-30 Jaun Casanova , Simone Santini

We consider the field theory that defines a perfect incompressible 2D fluid. One distinctive property of this system is that the quadratic action for fluctuations around the ground state features neither mass nor gradient term. Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-24 Aurélien Dersy , Andrei Khmelnitsky , Riccardo Rattazzi

We provide an in-depth study of the recently introduced notion of completely incompatible observables and its links to the support uncertainty and to the Kirkwood-Dirac nonclassicality of pure quantum states. The latter notion has recently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Stephan De Bievre

This paper presents a theory of systemic undecidability, reframing incomputability as a structural property of systems rather than a localized feature of specific functions or problems. We define a notion of causal embedding and prove a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seth Bulin

Inventory models with lost sales and large lead times have traditionally been considered intractable due to the curse of dimensionality. Recently, Goldberg and co-authors laid the foundations for a new approach to solving these models, by…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-04-21 Linwei Xin , David A. Goldberg

We formalize two independent computational limitations that constrain algorithmic intelligence: formal incompleteness and dynamical unpredictability. The former limits the deductive power of consistent reasoning systems while the latter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Abhisek Ganguly

A natural and informal approach to verifiable (or zero-knowledge) ML inference over floating-point data is: ``prove that each layer was computed correctly up to tolerance $\delta$; therefore the final output is a reasonable inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Or Zamir

A concept of randomness for infinite time register machines (ITRMs) is defined and studied. In particular, we show that for this notion of randomness, computability from mutually random reals implies computability and that an analogue of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Merlin Carl

In this work we prove the undecidability (and $\Sigma^0_1$-completeness) of several theories of semirings with fixed points. The generality of our results stems from recursion theoretic methods, namely the technique of effective…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Anupam Das , Abhishek De , Stepan L. Kuznetsov

A hyperproperty relates executions of a program and is used to formalize security objectives such as confidentiality, non-interference, privacy, and anonymity. Formally, a hyperproperty is a collection of allowable sets of executions. A…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Ali Bajwa , Minjian Zhang , Rohit Chadha , Mahesh Viswanathan

Building on the recent notion of non-uniform complete observability, and on the fact that this property ensures non-uniform exponential detectability, this paper establishes the converse implication under suitable additional assumptions.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Ignacio Huerta , Pablo Monzón

We investigate the problem of safety verification of infinite-state parameterized programs that are formed based on a rich class of topologies. We introduce a new proof system, called parametric proof spaces, which exploits the underlying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ruotong Cheng , Azadeh Farzan

Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of recent advances in machine intelligence, a number of scientists, philosophers and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Manuel Alfonseca , Manuel Cebrian , Antonio Fernandez Anta , Lorenzo Coviello , Andres Abeliuk , Iyad Rahwan

The no-masking theorem for quantum information proves that it is impossible to encode an arbitrary input state into a larger bipartite entangled state such that the full information is stored in the correlation but the individual subsystems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Swapnil Bhowmick , Abhay Srivastav , Arun Kumar Pati