Efficient Craig Interpolation for Linear Diophantine (Dis)Equations and Linear Modular Equations

  • Authors:
  • Himanshu Jain;Edmund Clarke;Orna Grumberg

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,;School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,;Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,

  • Venue:
  • CAV '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computer Aided Verification
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The use of Craig interpolants has enabled the development of powerful hardware and software model checking techniques. Efficient algorithms are known for computing interpolants in rational and real linear arithmetic. We focus on subsets of integer linear arithmetic. Our main results are polynomial time algorithms for obtaining interpolants for conjunctions of linear diophantine equations, linear modular equations (linear congruences), and linear diophantine disequations. We show the utility of the proposed interpolation algorithms for discovering modular/divisibilitypredicates in a counterexample guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) framework. This has enabled verification of simple programs that cannot be checked using existing CEGAR based model checkers.