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On the Monniaux Problem in abstract interpretation

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The Monniaux Problem in abstract interpretation asks, roughly speaking, whether the following question is decidable: given a program P, a safety (e.g., non-reachability) specification ϕ, and an abstract domain of invariants D, does there exist an inductive invariant I in D guaranteeing that program P meets its specification ϕ. The Monniaux Problem is of course parameterised by the classes of programs and invariant domains that one considers. In this paper, we show that the Monniaux Problem is undecidable for unguarded affine programs and semilinear invariants (unions of polyhedra). Moreover, we show that decidability is recovered in the important special case of simple linear loops.
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10.1007/978-3-030-32304-2_9

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Computer Science
Oxford college:
St John's College
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Springer
Host title:
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science More from this journal
Volume:
11822
Pages:
162-180
Publication date:
2019-10-02
Acceptance date:
2019-06-14
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2019-08-09
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