English
Related papers

Related papers: The Complexity of Poor Man's Logic

200 papers

We prove that the problem of deciding the consequence relation of the full Lambek calculus with weakening is complete for the class HAck of hyper-Ackermannian problems (i.e., level F_{\omega}^{\omega} of the ordinal-indexed hierarchy of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Vitor Greati , Revantha Ramanayake

Over the last two decades, propositional satisfiability (SAT) has become one of the most successful and widely applied techniques for the solution of NP-complete problems. The aim of this paper is to investigate theoretically how Sat can be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-05-06 Johannes Klaus Fichte , Stefan Szeider

We consider the complexity (in terms of the arithmetical hierarchy) of the various quantifier levels of the diagram of a computably presented metric structure. As the truth value of a sentence of continuous logic may be any real in $[0,1]$,…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-06-11 Caleb Camrud , Isaac Goldbring , Timothy H. McNicholl

We provide a simple translation of the satisfiability problem for regular grammar logics with converse into GF2, which is the intersection of the guarded fragment and the 2-variable fragment of first-order logic. This translation is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Stephane Demri , Hans de Nivelle

For those of us who generally live in the world of syntax, semantic proof techniques such as reducibility, realizability or logical relations seem somewhat magical despite -- or perhaps due to -- their seemingly unreasonable effectiveness.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Pierre-Évariste Dagand , Lionel Rieg , Gabriel Scherer

We survey systematic approaches to basis-restricted fragments of propositional logic and modal logics, with an emphasis on how expressive power and computational complexity depend on the allowed operators. The propositional case is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nick Bezhanishvili , Balder ten Cate , Arunavo Ganguly , Arne Meier

Optimization is fundamental in many areas of science, from computer science and information theory to engineering and statistical physics, as well as to biology or social sciences. It typically involves a large number of variables and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-08 Lenka Zdeborová

A decision problem is called parameterized if its input is a pair of strings. One of these strings is referred to as a parameter. The problem: given a propositional logic program P and a non-negative integer k, decide whether P has a stable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zbigniew Lonc , Miroslaw Truszczynski

Provability logic GLP is well-known to be incomplete w.r.t. Kripke semantics. A natural topological semantics of GLP interprets modalities as derivative operators of a polytopological space. Such spaces satisfying all the axioms of GLP are…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-19 Lev D. Beklemishev , David Gabelaia

We study three problems related to the computational complexity of the popular game Minesweeper. The first is consistency: given a set of clues, is there any arrangement of mines that satisfies it? This problem has been known to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-04-24 MIT Hardness Group , Della Hendrickson , Andy Tockman

Adding propositional quantification to the modal logics K, T or S4 is known to lead to undecidability but CTL with propositional quantification under the tree semantics (tQCTL) admits a non-elementary Tower-complete satisfiability problem.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bartosz Bednarczyk , Stéphane Demri

In the last two decades, modal and description logics have been applied to numerous areas of computer science, including knowledge representation, formal verification, database theory, distributed computing and, more recently, semantic web…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Roberto Sebastiani , Michele Vescovi

We consider a modal logic that can formalise statements about uncertainty and beliefs such as `I think that my wallet is in the drawer rather than elsewhere' or `I am confused whether my appointment is on Monday or Tuesday'. To do that, we…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Marta Bílková , Thomas M. Ferguson , Daniil Kozhemiachenko

Characteristic formulae give a complete logical description of the behaviour of processes modulo some chosen notion of behavioural semantics. They allow one to reduce equivalence or preorder checking to model checking, and are exactly the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Luca Aceto , Antonis Achilleos , Aggeliki Chalki , Anna Ingolfsdottir

Boolean satisfiability problem has applications in various fields. An efficient algorithm to solve satisfiability problem can be used to solve many other problems efficiently. The input of satisfiability problem is a finite set of clauses.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Manoj Kumar

There has been a significant interest in extending various modal logics with intersection, the most prominent examples being epistemic and doxastic logics with distributed knowledge. Completeness proofs for such logics tend to be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Yì N. Wáng , Thomas Ågotnes

A classic result by Stockmeyer gives a non-elementary lower bound to the emptiness problem for star-free generalized regular expressions. This result is intimately connected to the satisfiability problem for interval temporal logic, notably…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-07 L. Bozzelli , A. Montanari , A. Peron , P. Sala

Results of computational complexity exist for a wide range of phrase structure-based grammar formalisms, while there is an apparent lack of such results for dependency-based formalisms. We here adapt a result on the complexity of…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Peter Neuhaus , Norbert Broeker

We study the two-variable fragments D^2 and IF^2 of dependence logic and independence-friendly logic. We consider the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems of these logics and show that for D^2, both problems are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Juha Kontinen , Antti Kuusisto , Peter Lohmann , Jonni Virtema

We analyse the complexity of the satisfiability problem ssmSAT for State Space Models (SSM), which asks whether an input sequence can lead the model to an accepting configuration. We find that ssmSAT is undecidable in general, reflecting…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange