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In 1995, David Chalmers opined as implausible that there may be parts of our arithmetical competence that no sound formal system could ever duplicate. We prove that the recursive number-theoretic relation x=Sb(y 19|Z(y)) - which is…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhupinder Singh Anand

We survey recent developments in the study of probabilistic complexity classes. While the evidence seems to support the conjecture that probabilism can be deterministically simulated with relatively low overhead, i.e., that $P=BPP$, it also…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-12-15 Russell Impagliazzo

G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem is standardly understood as showing that no sufficiently strong, consistent theory of arithmetic can prove its own consistency, a result typically interpreted against a model-theoretic background in…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Alexander V. Gheorghiu

It is well known that the kind of P systems involved in the definition of the P conjecture is able to solve problems in the complexity class $\mathbf{P}$ by leveraging the uniformity condition. Here we show that these systems are indeed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Alberto Leporati , Luca Manzoni , Giancarlo Mauri , Antonio E. Porreca , Claudio Zandron

Goedel Incompleteness Theorem leaves open a way around it, vaguely perceived for a long time but not clearly identified. (Thus, Goedel believed informal arguments can answer any math question.) Closing this loophole does not seem obvious…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Leonid A. Levin

The radical solution of polynomials with rational coefficients is a famous solved problem. This paper found that it is a $\mathbb{NP}$ problem. Furthermore, this paper found that arbitrary $ \mathscr{P} \in \mathbb{P}$ shall have a one-way…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Bojin Zheng , Weiwu Wang

We introduce the zeta number, natural halting probability and natural complexity of a Turing machine and we relate them to Chaitin's Omega number, halting probability, and program-size complexity. A classification of Turing machines…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Cristian S. Calude , Michael A. Stay

The theory of addition in the domains of natural (N), integer (Z), rational (Q), real (R) and complex (C) numbers is decidable, so is the theory of multiplication in all those domains. By Godel's Incompleteness Theorem the theory of…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Saeed Salehi

In this paper we consider a fragment of the first-order theory of the real numbers that includes systems of equations of continuous functions in bounded domains, and for which all functions are computable in the sense that it is possible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Peter Franek , Stefan Ratschan , Piotr Zgliczynski

We consider the average-case complexity of some otherwise undecidable or open Diophantine problems. More precisely, consider the following: (I) Given a polynomial f in Z[v,x,y], decide the sentence \exists v \forall x \exists y f(v,x,y)=0,…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-20 J. Maurice Rojas

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

Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is a prominent specification formalism for real-time systems. In this paper, we show that the satisfiability problem for MTL over finite timed words is decidable, with non-primitive recursive complexity. We also…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Joel Ouaknine , James Worrell

The Kochen-Specker no-go theorem established that hidden-variable theories in quantum mechanics necessarily admit contextuality. This theorem is formally stated in terms of the partial Boolean algebra structure of projectors on a Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Anuj Dawar , Nihil Shah

Many problems can be specified by patterns of propositional formulae depending on a parameter, e.g. the specification of a circuit usually depends on the number of bits of its input. We define a logic whose formulae, called "iterated…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-01-26 Vincent Aravantinos , Ricardo Caferra , Nicolas Peltier

Given a finite structure $M$ and property $p$, it is a natural to study the degree of satisfiability of $p$ in $M$; i.e. to ask: what is the probability that uniformly randomly chosen elements in $M$ satisfy $p$? In group theory, a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Benjamin Merlin Bumpus , Zoltan A. Kocsis

The ordered structures of natural, integer, rational and real numbers are studied here. It is known that the theories of these numbers in the language of order are decidable and finitely axiomatizable. Also, their theories in the language…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Ziba Assadi , Saeed Salehi

We prove a complexity dichotomy for a class of counting problems expressible as bipartite 3-regular Holant problems. For every problem of the form $\operatorname{Holant}\left(f\mid =_3 \right)$, where $f$ is any integer-valued ternary…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Jin-Yi Cai , Austen Z. Fan , Yin Liu

We present in this paper a general algorithm for solving first-order formulas in particular theories called "decomposable theories". First of all, using special quantifiers, we give a formal characterization of decomposable theories and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Khalil Djelloul

We show that some natural problems that are XNLP-hard (which implies W[t]-hardness for all t) when parameterized by pathwidth or treewidth, become FPT when parameterized by stable gonality, a novel graph parameter based on optimal maps from…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hans L. Bodlaender , Gunther Cornelissen , Marieke van der Wegen

The HOM-problem, which asks whether the image of a regular tree language under a tree homomorphism is again regular, is known to be decidable. Since then, weighted versions of this problem for different semirings have also been…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andreea-Teodora Nász