Title :
More about recursive structures: descriptive complexity and zero-one laws
Author :
Hirst, Tima ; Harel, David
Author_Institution :
Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Rehovot, Israel
Abstract :
This paper continues our work on infinite, recursive structures. We investigate the descriptive complexity of several logics over recursive structures, including first-order, second-order, and fixpoint logic, exhibiting connections between expressibility of a property and its computational complexity. We then address 0-1 laws, proposing a version that applies to recursive structures and using it to prove several non-expressibility results
Keywords :
computational complexity; formal logic; 0-1 laws; descriptive complexity; expressibility; first-order logic; fixpoint logic logic; recursive structures; second-order logic; zero-one laws; Arithmetic; Computational complexity; Computer science; Logic; Polynomials; TV;
Conference_Titel :
Logic in Computer Science, 1996. LICS '96. Proceedings., Eleventh Annual IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
New Brunswick, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7463-6
DOI :
10.1109/LICS.1996.561361