• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Semënov Arithmetic, Affine {VASS}, and String Constraints
  • Contributor: Draghici, Andrei [Author]; Haase, Christoph [Author]; Manea, Florin [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2024
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2024.29
  • Keywords: Büchi arithmetic ; arithmetic theories ; exponentiation ; vector addition systems with states ; string constraints
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  • Description: We study extensions of Semënov arithmetic, the first-order theory of the structure ⟨ℕ,+,2^x⟩. It is well-known that this theory becomes undecidable when extended with regular predicates over tuples of number strings, such as the Büchi V₂-predicate. We therefore restrict ourselves to the existential theory of Semënov arithmetic and show that this theory is decidable in EXPSPACE when extended with arbitrary regular predicates over tuples of number strings. Our approach relies on a reduction to the language emptiness problem for a restricted class of affine vector addition systems with states, which we show decidable in EXPSPACE. As an application of our result, we settle an open problem from the literature and show decidability of a class of string constraints involving length constraints.
  • Access State: Open Access