The Expressive Power of Two-Variable Least Fixed-Point Logics
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چکیده
The present paper gives a classification of the expressive power of two-variable least fixed-point logics. The main results are: 1. The two-variable fragment of monadic least fixed-point logic with parameters is as expressive as full monadic least fixed-point logic (on binary structures). 2. The two-variable fragment of monadic least fixed-point logic without parameters is as expressive as the two-variable fragment of binary least fixed-point logic without parameters. 3. The two-variable fragment of binary least fixed-point logic with parameters is strictly more expressive than the two-variable fragment of monadic least fixed-point logic with parameters (even on finite strings).
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