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An automata-theoretic approach to Presburger arithmetic constraints

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This paper introduces a finite-automata based representation of Presburger arithmetic definable sets of integer vectors. The representation consists of concurrent automata operating on the binary encodings of the elements of the represented sets. This representation has several advantages. First, being automata-based it is operational in nature and hence leads directly to algorithms, for instance all usual operations on sets of integer vectors translate naturally to operations on automata. Second, the use of concurrent automata makes it compact. Third, it is insensitive to the representation size of integers. Our representation can be used whenever arithmetic constraints are needed. To illustrate its possibilities we show that it can handle integer programming optimally, and that it leads to a new original algorithm for the satisfiability of arithmetic inequalities.

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Wolper, P., Boigelot, B. (1995). An automata-theoretic approach to Presburger arithmetic constraints. In: Mycroft, A. (eds) Static Analysis. SAS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 983. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60360-3_30

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