Bernays-Schönfinkel-Ramsey with Simple Bounds is NEXPTIME-complete
Résumé
Linear arithmetic extended with free predicate symbols is undecidable, in general. We show that the restriction of linear arithmetic inequations to simple bounds extended with the Bernays-Schönfinkel-Ramsey free first-order fragment is decidable and NEXPTIME-complete. The result is almost tight because the Bernays-Schönfinkel-Ramsey fragment is undecidable in combination with linear difference inequations, simple additive inequations, quotient inequations and multiplicative inequations.