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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]] | * [[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]] | ||