On the Power of Deterministic Transitive Closures

نویسندگان

  • Erich Grädel
  • Gregory L. McColm
چکیده

We show that transitive closure logic (FO + TC) is strictly more powerful than deterministic transitive closure logic (FO + DTC) on nite (unordered) structures. In fact, on certain classes of graphs, such as hypercubes or regular graphs of large degree and girth, every DTC-query is bounded and therefore rst order expressible. On the other hand there are simple (FO + pos TC) queries on these classes that cannot be deened by rst order formulae.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Comput.

دوره 119  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995