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sav08:classical_decision_problem [2008/04/02 17:14]
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sav08:classical_decision_problem [2008/04/02 23:03]
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 ====== Classical Decision Problem ====== ====== Classical Decision Problem ======
  
 +Consider satisfiability problem for sentences in first-order logic.
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 +Without loss of generality, assume that formulas are in prenex form.
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 +Classify formulas according to
 +  * regular expression describing the sequence of quantifiers (e.g. $\exists^* \forall^*$ means formulas $\forall x_1. \ldots. \forall x_n. \exists y_1.\ldots \exists y_n. F$)
   * [[http://​www.logic.rwth-aachen.de/​pub/​graedel/​Gr-kalmar03.ps|Decidable Classes of First-Order and Fixpoint Logics]]   * [[http://​www.logic.rwth-aachen.de/​pub/​graedel/​Gr-kalmar03.ps|Decidable Classes of First-Order and Fixpoint Logics]]
 +  * [[http://​www.di.unipi.it/​~boerger/​decpblbook.html|Egon Börger, Erich Grädel, Yuri Gurevich: The Classical Decision Problem]], also on [[http://​books.google.ch/​books?​id=3po2Tv_UVcMC&​vq=On+the+classical+decision+problem|Google Books]]
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