Coinductive Techniques for Checking Satisfiability of Generalized Nested Conditions

Authors Lara Stoltenow , Barbara König , Sven Schneider , Andrea Corradini , Leen Lambers , Fernando Orejas



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Lara Stoltenow
  • University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Barbara König
  • University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Sven Schneider
  • Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany
Andrea Corradini
  • Università di Pisa, Italy
Leen Lambers
  • Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Fernando Orejas
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

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Lara Stoltenow, Barbara König, Sven Schneider, Andrea Corradini, Leen Lambers, and Fernando Orejas. Coinductive Techniques for Checking Satisfiability of Generalized Nested Conditions. In 35th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 311, pp. 39:1-39:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2024.39

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We study nested conditions, a generalization of first-order logic to a categorical setting, and provide a tableau-based (semi-decision) procedure for checking (un)satisfiability and finite model generation. This generalizes earlier results on graph conditions. Furthermore we introduce a notion of witnesses, allowing the detection of infinite models in some cases. To ensure completeness, paths in a tableau must be fair, where fairness requires that all parts of a condition are processed eventually. Since the correctness arguments are non-trivial, we rely on coinductive proof methods and up-to techniques that structure the arguments. We distinguish between two types of categories: categories where all sections are isomorphisms, allowing for a simpler tableau calculus that includes finite model generation; in categories where this requirement does not hold, model generation does not work, but we still obtain a sound and complete calculus.

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
  • Theory of computation → Program reasoning
Keywords
  • satisfiability
  • graph conditions
  • coinductive techniques
  • category theory

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