Hierarchic reasoning in local theory extensions

  • Authors:
  • Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CADE' 20 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Automated Deduction
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We show that for special types of extensions of a base theory, which we call local, efficient hierarchic reasoning is possible. We identify situations in which it is possible, for an extension $\mathcal{T}_{1}$ of a theory $\mathcal{T}_{0}$, to express the decidability and complexity of the universal theory of $\mathcal{T}_{1}$ in terms of the decidability resp. complexity of suitable fragments of the theory $\mathcal{T}_{0}$ (universal or ∀∃). These results apply to theories related to data types, but also to certain theories of functions from mathematics.