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A note on the expressive power of linear orders

Logic in Computer Science 2015-07-01 v2

Abstract

This article shows that there exist two particular linear orders such that first-order logic with these two linear orders has the same expressive power as first-order logic with the Bit-predicate FO(Bit). As a corollary we obtain that there also exists a built-in permutation such that first-order logic with a linear order and this permutation is as expressive as FO(Bit).

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@article{arxiv.1111.5901,
  title  = {A note on the expressive power of linear orders},
  author = {Thomas Schwentick and Nicole Schweikardt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.5901},
  year   = {2015}
}
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