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A Decidable Fragment of Second Order Logic With Applications to Synthesis

Authors P. Madhusudan, Umang Mathur , Shambwaditya Saha, Mahesh Viswanathan

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  • Theory of computation → Logic and verification
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  • second order logic
  • synthesis
  • decidable fragment

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Abstract

We propose a fragment of many-sorted second order logic called EQSMT and show that checking satisfiability of sentences in this fragment is decidable. EQSMT formulae have an exists^*forall^* quantifier prefix (over variables, functions and relations) making EQSMT conducive for modeling synthesis problems. Moreover, EQSMT allows reasoning using a combination of background theories provided that they have a decidable satisfiability problem for the exists^*forall^* FO-fragment (e.g., linear arithmetic). Our decision procedure reduces the satisfiability of EQSMT formulae to satisfiability queries of exists^*forall^* formulae of each individual background theory, allowing us to use existing efficient SMT solvers supporting exists^*forall^* reasoning for these theories; hence our procedure can be seen as effectively quantified SMT (EQSMT) reasoning.

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P. Madhusudan, Umang Mathur, Shambwaditya Saha, and Mahesh Viswanathan. A Decidable Fragment of Second Order Logic With Applications to Synthesis. In 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 119, pp. 31:1-31:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.31

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P. Madhusudan
  • University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Umang Mathur
  • University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Shambwaditya Saha
  • University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Mahesh Viswanathan
  • University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

Funding

This work has been supported by NSF grants 1422798, 1329991, 1138994 and 1527395.

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