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Traversal-invariant characterizations of logarithmic space

Logic in Computer Science 2020-06-15 v1 Logic

Abstract

We give a novel descriptive-complexity theoretic characterization of L and NL computable queries over finite structures using traversal invariance. We summarize this as (N)L = FO + (breadth-first) traversal-invariance.

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@article{arxiv.2006.07067,
  title  = {Traversal-invariant characterizations of logarithmic space},
  author = {Siddharth Bhaskar and Steven Lindell and Scott Weinstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.07067},
  year   = {2020}
}
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