PROGRAM
ODELJENJE ZA MATEMATIKU MATEMATIČKOG INSTITUTA SANU |
PROGRAM ZA JUL 2024.
Utorak, 02.07.2024. u 14:00, Kneza Mihaila 36, sala 301f i Online
Michael Benedikt, Oxford
DECIDABILITY OF ARITHMETIC
This talk will be about algorithms for deciding whether a formula in first-order logic with arithmetic operators holds in the integers. In particular, we focus on addition, inequality, and exponentiation with base 2, known to be decidable from work of Semenov several decades ago. The seminar will be mostly based on a paper at ICALP 2023, joint with Dmitry Chistikov and Alessio Mansutti, which provides the first complexity bounds for this theory: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18164/.
I will include some background on decision procedures, and I am hoping to make the talk accessible to people who know nothing about this area. If time permits, I may also say a few words about related decidability results and periodic spectra for counting logics with arithmetic, joint work with Tony Tan and Egor Kostylev: https://arxiv.org/html/2006.01193v2.
Zajednički sastanak sa Logičkim seminarom.