During the last decades, a lot of effort was put into identifying decidable fragments of first-order logic. Such efforts gave birth, among the others, to the two-variable fragment, the guarded fragment, depending on the type of restriction imposed on formulae from the language. Despite the success of the mentioned logics in formal verification and knowledge representation, such first-order fragments are too weak to express even the simplest statistical constraints, required for modelling of influence networks or in statistical reasoning. In this work we investigate the extensions of these classical decidable logics with percentage quantifiers, specifying how frequent a formula is satisfied in the indented model. We show, surprisingly, that all the mentioned decidable fragments become undecidable under such extension, sharpening the existing results in the literature. Our negative results are supplemented by decidability of the two-variable guarded fragment with even more expressive counting, namely Presburger constraints. Our results can be applied to infer decidability of various modal and description logics, e.g. Presburger Modal Logics with Converse or ALCI, with expressive cardinality constraints.
翻译:在过去几十年中,人们花了很大努力来查明第一阶逻辑的可分解的碎片。 这些努力除其他外,产生了两种可变的碎片,即根据对语言公式的限制类型而形成的有节制的碎片。 尽管在正式核查和知识表述方面,上述逻辑取得了成功,但这种第一阶碎片太弱,甚至无法表达最简单的统计限制,无法表达影响网络建模或统计推理所需要的最简单的统计限制。 在这项工作中,我们用百分数来调查这些古老的可分解逻辑的延伸,具体说明了在缩进模型中满足公式的频率。我们令人惊讶地发现,所有提到的可分解的碎片在这种扩展下变得不可分解,使文献中的现有结果更加锐化。我们的负面结果由两种可变的有更清晰的计数的保守碎片(即Presburger制约)。我们的结果可以用来推断出各种模式和描述逻辑的可分解性,例如Presburger Modallogics,具有直观的基本限制。