Decidable (Ac)counting with Parikh and Muller: Adding Presburger Arithmetic to Monadic Second-Order Logic over Tree-Interpretable Structures
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Abstract
We propose ωMSO∞∞BAPA, an expressive logic for describing countable structures, which subsumes and transcends both Counting Monadic Second-Order Logic (CMSO) and Boolean Algebra with Presburger Arithmetic (BAPA). We show that satisfiability of ωMSO∞∞BAPA is decidable over the class of labeled infinite binary trees, whereas it becomes undecidable even for a rather mild relaxations. The decidability result is established by an elaborate multi-step transformation into a particular normal form, followed by the deployment of Parikh-Muller Tree Automata, a novel kind of automaton for infinite labeled binary trees, integrating and generalizing both Muller and Parikh automata while still exhibiting a decidable (in fact PSpace-complete) emptiness problem. By means of MSO-interpretations, we lift the decidability result to all tree-interpretable classes of structures, including the classes of finite/countable structures of bounded treewidth/cliquewidth/partitionwidth. We generalize the result further by showing that decidability is even preserved when coupling width-restricted ωMSO∞∞BAPA with width-unrestricted two-variable logic with advanced counting. A final showcase demonstrates how our results can be leveraged to harvest decidability results for expressive µ-calculi extended by global Presburger constraints.
Details
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic, CSL 2024 |
Editors | Aniello Murano, Alexandra Silva |
Publisher | Schloss Dagstuhl- Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik GmbH, Dagstuhl Publishing |
ISBN (electronic) | 978-3-95977-310-2 |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2024 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
Series | Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs |
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Volume | 288 |
ISSN | 1868-8969 |
Conference
Title | 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic |
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Abbreviated title | CSL 2024 |
Conference number | 32 |
Duration | 19 - 23 February 2024 |
Website | |
Location | Centro Congressi Federico II |
City | Naples |
Country | Italy |
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Keywords
- BAPA, decidability, MSO, MSO-interpretations, Parikh-Muller tree automata