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Integer Linear-Exponential Programming in NP by Quantifier Elimination

Authors Dmitry Chistikov , Alessio Mansutti , Mikhail R. Starchak

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  • Computing methodologies → Symbolic and algebraic algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Logic
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  • decision procedures
  • integer programming
  • quantifier elimination

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Abstract

This paper provides an NP procedure that decides whether a linear-exponential system of constraints has an integer solution. Linear-exponential systems extend standard integer linear programs with exponential terms 2^x and remainder terms (x mod 2^y). Our result implies that the existential theory of the structure (ℕ,0,1,+,2^(⋅),V_2(⋅,⋅), ≤) has an NP-complete satisfiability problem, thus improving upon a recent EXPSPACE upper bound. This theory extends the existential fragment of Presburger arithmetic with the exponentiation function x ↦ 2^x and the binary predicate V_2(x,y) that is true whenever y ≥ 1 is the largest power of 2 dividing x.
Our procedure for solving linear-exponential systems uses the method of quantifier elimination. As a by-product, we modify the classical Gaussian variable elimination into a non-deterministic polynomial-time procedure for integer linear programming (or: existential Presburger arithmetic).

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Dmitry Chistikov, Alessio Mansutti, and Mikhail R. Starchak. Integer Linear-Exponential Programming in NP by Quantifier Elimination. In 51st International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 297, pp. 132:1-132:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2024.132

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Dmitry Chistikov
  • Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) & Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Alessio Mansutti
  • IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain
Mikhail R. Starchak
  • St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Funding

  • Chistikov, Dmitry: Supported in part by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/X03027X/1].
  • Mansutti, Alessio: funded by the Madrid Regional Government (César Nombela grant 2023-T1/COM-29001), and by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, EU (grant PID2022-138072OB-I00).
  • Starchak, Mikhail R.: Supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project 23-71-01041.

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