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Fragments of First-Order Logic: Oxford Logic Guides

Autor Ian Pratt-Hartmann
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mar 2023
A sentence of first-order logic is satisfiable if it is true in some structure, and finitely satisfiable if it is true in some finite structure. The question arises as to whether there exists an algorithm for determining whether a given formula of first-order logic is satisfiable, or indeed finitely satisfiable. This question was answered negatively in 1936 by Church and Turing (for satisfiability) and in 1950 by Trakhtenbrot (for finite satisfiability).In contrast, the satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems are algorithmically solvable for restricted subsets---or, as we say, fragments---of first-order logic, a fact which is today of considerable interest in Computer Science. This book provides an up-to-date survey of the principal axes of research, charting the limits of decision in first-order logic and exploring the trade-off between expressive power and complexity of reasoning. Divided into three parts, the book considers for which fragments of first-order logic there is an effective method for determining satisfiability or finite satisfiability. Furthermore, if these problems are decidable for some fragment, what is their computational complexity? Part I focusses on fragments defined by restricting the set of available formulas. Topics covered include the Aristotelian syllogistic and its relatives, the two-variable fragment, the guarded fragment, the quantifier-prefix fragments and the fluted fragment. Part II investigates logics with counting quantifiers. Starting with De Morgan's numerical generalization of the Aristotelian syllogistic, we proceed to the two-variable fragment with counting quantifiers and its guarded subfragment, explaining the applications of the latter to the problem of query answering in structured data. Part III concerns logics characterized by semantic constraints, limiting the available interpretations of certain predicates. Taking propositional modal logic and graded modal logic as our cue, we return to the satisfiability problem for two-variable first-order logic and its relatives, but this time with certain distinguished binary predicates constrained to be interpreted as equivalence relations or transitive relations. The work finishes, slightly breaching the bounds of first-order logic proper, with a chapter on logics interpreted over trees.
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ISBN-13: 9780192867964
ISBN-10: 0192867962
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 36 mm
Greutate: 1.24 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Logic Guides

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Ian Pratt-Hartmann studied mathematics and philosophy at Brasenose College, Oxford, and philosophy at Princeton and Stanford Universities, gaining his PhD from Princeton in 1987. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester as well as Professor of Mathematical Sciences in the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Opole, and recently held an appointment as Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw.