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Stålmarck’s 1-saturation algorithm is an incomplete but fast method for computing partial equivalence relations over propositional formulae. Aside from anecdotal evidence, until now little has been known about what it can prove. In this paper we characterize a set of formulae with bitvector-inequalities for which 1-saturation is sufficient to prove unsatisfiability. This result has application to fast predicate abstraction for software with fixed-width bit-vectors.
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Cook, B., Gonthier, G. (2005). Using Stålmarck’s Algorithm to Prove Inequalities. In: Lau, KK., Banach, R. (eds) Formal Methods and Software Engineering. ICFEM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11576280_23
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