Satisfiability of Non-Linear Transcendental Arithmetic as a Certificate Search Problem

📅 2023-03-29
🏛️ NASA Formal Methods
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This work addresses the satisfiability checking problem for transcendental functions in Nonlinear Real Arithmetic (NRA). Traditional approaches struggle to simultaneously achieve high precision, computational efficiency, and independent verifiability. We propose a novel, formally verifiable numerical certificate framework that models transcendental constraint solving as an explicit certificate search problem with guaranteed precision. Our method integrates adaptive floating-point arithmetic, interval Newton methods, symbolic-numeric hybrid verification, and backward error analysis. The resulting certificates are independently verifiable by third parties in sub-second time, with negligible failure probability. Experimental evaluation on multiple benchmarks demonstrates high-precision satisfiability determination, overcoming the inherent accuracy-efficiency trade-off that limits pure symbolic reasoning and classical interval analysis.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Develops a new satisfiability certificate for non-linear transcendental arithmetic.
Formulates satisfiability as a search problem for verifiable certificates.
Demonstrates improved algorithm performance on benchmark problems.
Innovation

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Introduces new satisfiability certificates for NTA
Formulates satisfiability as certificate search problem
Develops algorithms for systematic certificate search
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