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Reversible logic represents the basis for many emerging technologies and has recently been intensively studied. However, most of the Boolean functions of practical interest are irreversible and must be embedded into a reversible function…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Mathias Soeken , Robert Wille , Oliver Keszocze , D. Michael Miller , Rolf Drechsler

In this paper we provide a positive answer to a question left open by Alur and and Deshmukh in 2011 by showing that equivalence of finite-valued copyless streaming string transducers is decidable.

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In this paper, we study the symmetric rank of products of linear forms and an irreducible quadratic form. The main result presents a new, non-trivial lower bound for the rank, and the arguments rely on the apolarity lemma. In the special…

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We prove that $\mathrm{deg}(f) \leq \widetilde{O}(\mathrm{rdeg}(f)^3)$ for every Boolean function $f$, where $\mathrm{deg}(f)$ is the degree of $f$ and $\mathrm{rdeg}(f)$ is the rational degree of $f$. This resolves the second of the three…

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We study systems of polynomial equations in infinite finitely generated commutative associative rings with an identity element. For each such ring $R$ we obtain an interpretation by systems of equations of a ring of integers $O$ of a finite…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Albert Garreta , Alexei Miasnikov , Denis Ovchinnikov

We consider two number-theoretic problems arising from Fuglede's spectral set conjecture: characterizing finite sets that tile integers, and finding polynomials with (0,1) coefficients whose roots have a certain multiplicative structure. We…

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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

We prove bilinear inequalities for differential operators in $\mathbb{R}^2$. Such type inequalities turned out to be useful for anisotropic embedding theorems for overdetermined systems and the limiting order summation exponent. However,…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-04-07 Dmitriy M. Stolyarov

A fundamental construction in formal language theory is the Myhill-Nerode congruence on words, whose finitedness characterizes regular language. This construction was generalized to functions from $\Sigma^*$ to $\mathbb{Z}$ by Colcombet,…

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We apply the topology of convergence on compact sets to define unpredictable functions [5, 6]. The topology is metrizable and easy for applications with integral operators. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach, the existence and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-17 Marat Akhmet , Mehmet Onur Fen

We solve a generalization of B\"uchi's problem in any exponent for function fields, and briefly discuss some consequences on undecidability. This provides the first example where this problem is solved for rings of functions in the case of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-07-21 Hector Pasten

A function $f:R\to R$, where $R$ is a commutative ring with unit element, is called polyfunction if it admits a polynomial representative $p\in R[x]$. Based on this notion we introduce ring invariants which associate to $R$ the numbers…

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The synthesis problem asks to automatically generate, if it exists, an algorithm from a specification of correct input-output pairs. In this paper, we consider the synthesis of computable functions of infinite words, for a classical Turing…

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A computably presented algebraic field $F$ has a \emph{splitting algorithm} if it is decidable which polynomials in $F[X]$ are irreducible there. We prove that such a field is computably categorical iff it is decidable which pairs of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Russell Miller , Alexandra Shlapentokh

We prove that for a given deterministic top-down transducer with look-ahead it is decidable whether or not its translation is definable (1)~by a linear top-down tree transducer or (2)~by a tree homomorphism. We present algorithms that…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Sebastian Maneth , Helmut Seidl , Martin Vu

Multidimensional combinatorial substitutions are rules that replace symbols by finite patterns of symbols in $\mathbb Z^d$. We focus on the case where the patterns are not necessarily rectangular, which requires a specific description of…

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Many fundamental problems in extremal combinatorics are equivalent to proving certain polynomial inequalities in graph homomorphism densities. In 2011, a breakthrough result by Hatami and Norine showed that it is undecidable to verify…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Hao Chen , Yupeng Lin , Jie Ma , Fan Wei

Propositional logics in general, considered as a set of sentences, can be undecidable even if they have "nice" representations, e.g., are given by a calculus. Even decidable propositional logics can be computationally complex (e.g., already…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Matthias Baaz , Richard Zach

We relate the computational complexity of finite strings to universal representations of their underlying symmetries. First, Boolean functions are classified using the universal covering topologies of the circuits which enumerate them. A…

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