Boolean Functions as Models for Quantified Boolean Formulas

  • Authors:
  • Hans Kleine Büning;K. Subramani;Xishun Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Universität Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany 33095;LDCSEE, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA 26506;Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China 510275

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Automated Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the notion of models for quantified Boolean formulas. For various classes of quantified Boolean formulas and various classes of Boolean functions, we investigate the problem of determining whether a model exists. Furthermore, we show for these classes the complexity of the model checking problem, which is to check whether a given set of Boolean functions is a model for a formula. For classes of Boolean functions, we establish some characterizations in terms of classes of quantified Boolean formulas that have such a model.