{"title":"Deterministic vs. nondeterministic transitive closure logic","authors":"E. Grädel, G. McColm","doi":"10.1109/LICS.1992.185519","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"It is shown that transitive closure logic (FO+TC) is strictly more powerful than deterministic transitive closure logic (FO+DTC) on unordered structures. In fact, on certain classes of graphs, such as hypercubes or regular graphs of large degree and girth, every query in (FO+DTC) is first-order expressible. On the other hand, there are simple (FO+pos TC) queries on these classes that cannot be defined by first-order formulas.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":6412,"journal":{"name":"[1992] Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","volume":"151 1","pages":"58-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1992-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1992] Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS.1992.185519","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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It is shown that transitive closure logic (FO+TC) is strictly more powerful than deterministic transitive closure logic (FO+DTC) on unordered structures. In fact, on certain classes of graphs, such as hypercubes or regular graphs of large degree and girth, every query in (FO+DTC) is first-order expressible. On the other hand, there are simple (FO+pos TC) queries on these classes that cannot be defined by first-order formulas.<>
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