The geometry of the QBF machine's tape #
Where the cells sit: which tagged tuples are positions, which is the lowest and which the highest, and what the immediate neighbour of each one is. Everything the run needs to know about movement, proved once, before any transition is taken.
The content is that the tape
⊢ v₁ v₂ … vₙ ⊣
is exactly the position order DescriptiveComplexity.QsatTM.QLe: the left marker
is DescriptiveComplexity.MinPos, the right marker is DescriptiveComplexity.MaxPos,
and DescriptiveComplexity.SuccPos steps from the left marker to the outermost
variable, from a variable to the next one the prefix binds, and from the
innermost variable to the right marker. The degenerate instance – no quantified
variable at all – is the case where the two markers are neighbours.
All of it needs the instance to be well formed, since that is exactly when the
prefix order is a linear order on the variables and QLe is a linear order at
all (DescriptiveComplexity.QsatTM.isLinOrd_qLe).
The three position tags, compared #
Walking the quantifier prefix #
x is the variable the prefix binds first.
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x is the variable the prefix binds last.
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y is the variable the prefix binds immediately after x.
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The positions #
A tuple pinned at both coordinates is the tuple of least elements.
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The positions of the tape, listed: the two markers and one cell per quantified variable.
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Comparing positions #
The three cases of the tape order on elements, as a disjunction rcases
can see (DescriptiveComplexity.QsatTM.PLe is a def).
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Between two cells the tape order is the prefix order.
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A tag strictly lower in the index order is lower on the tape.
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The tape order is reflexive on a well-formed instance.
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The ends of the tape #
The left marker is the lowest position.
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The right marker is the highest position.
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Neighbours #
The left marker and the outermost variable are neighbours.
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With no quantified variable the two markers are neighbours.
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Consecutive variables of the prefix are neighbours on the tape.
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The innermost variable and the right marker are neighbours.