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Complexity of Existential Positive First-Order Logic

Computational Complexity 2011-01-13 v2 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Let gamma be a (not necessarily finite) structure with a finite relational signature. We prove that deciding whether a given existential positive sentence holds in gamma is in Logspace or complete for the class CSP(gamma)_NP under deterministic polynomial-time many-one reductions. Here, CSP(gamma)_NP is the class of problems that can be reduced to the Constraint Satisfaction Problem of gamma under non-deterministic polynomial-time many-one reductions.

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@article{arxiv.1011.4757,
  title  = {Complexity of Existential Positive First-Order Logic},
  author = {Manuel Bodirsky and Miki Hermann and Florian Richoux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4757},
  year   = {2011}
}

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8 pages

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