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On Combining Theories with Shared Set Operations

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We explore the problem of automated reasoning about the non-disjoint combination of theories that share set variables and operations. We prove a combination theorem and apply it to show the decidability of the satisfiability problem for a class of formulas obtained by applying propositional operations to quantified formulas belonging to several expressive decidable logics.

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