Deciding Equations in the Time Warp Algebra

DOI10.46298/LMCS-20(1:8)2024arXiv2302.04668MaRDI QIDQ6508763FDOQ6508763

Simon Santschi, Samuel J. van Gool, Adrien Guatto, George Metcalfe

Abstract: Join-preserving maps on the discrete time scale $omeg{a}^{+}$, referred to as time warps, have been proposed as graded modalities that can be used to quantify the growth of information in the course of program execution. The set of time warps forms a simple distributive involutive residuated lattice -- called the time warp algebra -- that is equipped with residual operations relevant to potential applications. In this paper, we show that although the time warp algebra generates a variety that lacks the finite model property, it nevertheless has a decidable equational theory. We also describe an implementation of a procedure for deciding equations in this algebra, written in the OCaml programming language, that makes use of the Z3 theorem prover.

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