The Bernays–Schönfinkel class (also known as Bernays–Schönfinkel–Ramsey class) of formulas, named after Paul Bernays, Moses Schönfinkel and Frank P. Ramsey, is a fragment of first-order logic formulas where satisfiability is decidable.

It is the set of sentences that, when written in prenex normal form, have an quantifier prefix and do not contain any function symbols.

This class of logic formulas is also sometimes referred as effectively propositional (EPR) since it can be effectively translated into propositional logic formulas by a process of grounding or instantiation.

The satisfiability problem for this class is NEXPTIME-complete.[1]

Applications

Efficient algorithms for deciding satisfiability of EPR have been integrated into SMT solvers.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. Lewis, Harry R. (1980), "Complexity results for classes of quantificational formulas", Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 21 (3): 317–353, doi:10.1016/0022-0000(80)90027-6, MR 0603587
  2. de Moura, Leonardo; Bjørner, Nikolaj (2008). Armando, Alessandro; Baumgartner, Peter; Dowek, Gilles (eds.). "Deciding Effectively Propositional Logic Using DPLL and Substitution Sets". Automated Reasoning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer: 410–425. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-71070-7_35. ISBN 978-3-540-71070-7.

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