Elementary bounds for presburger arithmetic

  • Authors:
  • Derek C. Oppen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • STOC '73 Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 1973

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Abstract

We consider the first-order theory whose language has as nonlogical symbols the constant symbols 0 and 1, the binary relation symbols &equil; and This theory of integers under addition is commonly called the 'Presburger Arithmetic' and is known to be decidable for truth [Presburger (1929), Hilbert and Bernays (1968)]. We prove here that there exists a decision procedure for this theory, involving quantifier elimination, for which there is a superexponential upper bound on the size of formula produced when all variables have been eliminated.