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Block products and nesting negations in FO2
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-23, 14:35 authored by Lukas Fleischer, Manfred Kufleitner, Alexander LauserThe alternation hierarchy in two-variable first-order logic FO 2 [∈ < ∈] over words was recently shown to be decidable by Kufleitner and Weil, and independently by Krebs and Straubing. In this paper we consider a similar hierarchy, reminiscent of the half levels of the dot-depth hierarchy or the Straubing-Thérien hierarchy. The fragment of FO 2 is defined by disallowing universal quantifiers and having at most m∈-∈1 nested negations. One can view as the formulas in FO 2 which have at most m blocks of quantifiers on every path of their parse tree, and the first block is existential. Thus, the m th level of the FO 2 -alternation hierarchy is the Boolean closure of. We give an effective characterization of, i.e., for every integer m one can decide whether a given regular language is definable by a two-variable first-order formula with negation nesting depth at most m. More precisely, for every m we give ω-terms U m and V m such that an FO 2 -definable language is in if and only if its ordered syntactic monoid satisfies the identity U m ∈V m. Among other techniques, the proof relies on an extension of block products to ordered monoids. © 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Funding
F.L. and M.K. were supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant DI 435/5-1
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- Science
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)Volume
8476 LNCSPages
176 - 189Citation
FLEISCHER, L., KUFLEITNER, M. and LAUSER, A., 2014. Block products and nesting negations in FO2. IN: Hirsch, E. ...et al. (eds.) Computer Science - Theory and Applications. 9th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, (CSR 2014), Moscow, Russia, June 7-11, 2014, Proceedings. Chaim: Springer, pp. 176-189.Publisher
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This is a pre-copyedited version of a contribution published in Hirsch, E. ...et al. (eds.) Computer Science - Theory and Applications. 9th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, (CSR 2014), published by Springer International. The definitive authenticated version is available online via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06686-8_14ISBN
9783319066851ISSN
0302-9743eISSN
1611-3349Publisher version
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science;8476Language
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