Finding models through graph saturation

06/25/2018

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by   Sebastiaan J. C. Joosten, et al.

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We give a procedure that can be used to automatically satisfy invariants of a certain shape. These invariants may be written with the operations intersection, composition and converse over binary relations, and equality over these operations. We call these invariants s that we interpret over graphs. For questions stated through sets of these sentences, this paper gives a semi-decision procedure we call graph saturation. It decides entailment over these s, inspired on graph rewriting. We prove correctness of the procedure. Moreover, we show the corresponding decision problem to be undecidable. This confirms a conjecture previously stated by the author.