On the Complexity of Fixed-Size Bit-Vector Logics with Binary Encoded Bit-Width
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
PUMA Workshop
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
Bit-precise reasoning is important for many practical applications of Satisfiability Mod-
ulo Theories (SMT). In recent years efficient approaches for solving fixed-size bit-vector
formulas have been developed. From the theoretical point of view, only few results on the
complexity of fixed-size bit-vector logics have been published. Some of these results only
hold if unary encoding on the bit-width of bit-vectors is used.
In previous work [26] we?ve already shown that binary encoding adds more expressive-
ness to bit-vector logics, e.g. it makes fixed-size bit-vector logic even without uninterpreted
functions nor quantification NExpTime-complete.
In this paper we revisit our complexity results for fixed-size bit-vector logics with binary
encoded bit-width and go into more detail when specifiying the underlying logics and
presenting our proofs.
We also extend our previous work by analyzing commonly used bit-vector operators
showing how they can be represented by a minimal set of so-called base operations. We
further give a better insight in where the additional expressiveness of binary encoding comes
from by proposing some new complexity results for bit-vector logics with a restricted set
of base operations or certain conditions on the bit-width.