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PRESBURGER ARITHMETIC, RATIONAL GENERATING FUNCTIONS, AND QUASI-POLYNOMIALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2015

KEVIN WOODS
KEVIN WOODS*
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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS OBERLIN COLLEGE OBERLIN, OHIO 44074, USAE-mail: Kevin.Woods@oberlin.eduURL: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/kwoods/
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Abstract

Presburger arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with addition (but no multiplication). We characterize sets that can be defined by a Presburger formula as exactly the sets whose characteristic functions can be represented by rational generating functions; a geometric characterization of such sets is also given. In addition, if p = (p1, . . . , pn) are a subset of the free variables in a Presburger formula, we can define a counting function g(p) to be the number of solutions to the formula, for a given p. We show that every counting function obtained in this way may be represented as, equivalently, either a piecewise quasi-polynomial or a rational generating function. Finally, we translate known computational complexity results into this setting and discuss open directions.

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Ehrhart polynomialsgenerating functionsPresburger arithmeticquasi-polynomialscomputational complexity
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 433 - 449
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2015 

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