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Autores principales: Bruse, Florian, Kronenberger, David, Lange, Martin
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02596
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author Bruse, Florian
Kronenberger, David
Lange, Martin
author_facet Bruse, Florian
Kronenberger, David
Lange, Martin
contents The characterization of PSPACE-queries over ordered structures as exactly those expressible in first-order logic with partial fixpoints (Vardi'82) is one of the classical results in the field of descriptive complexity. In this paper, we extend this result to characterizations of k-EXPSPACE-queries for arbitrary k, characterizing them as exactly those expressible in order-k+1-higher-order logic with partial fixpoints. For k>1, the restriction to ordered structures is no longer necessary due to the high expressive power of higher-order logic.
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spellingShingle Characterizing the Exponential-Space Hierarchy Via Partial Fixpoints
Bruse, Florian
Kronenberger, David
Lange, Martin
Logic in Computer Science
The characterization of PSPACE-queries over ordered structures as exactly those expressible in first-order logic with partial fixpoints (Vardi'82) is one of the classical results in the field of descriptive complexity. In this paper, we extend this result to characterizations of k-EXPSPACE-queries for arbitrary k, characterizing them as exactly those expressible in order-k+1-higher-order logic with partial fixpoints. For k>1, the restriction to ordered structures is no longer necessary due to the high expressive power of higher-order logic.
title Characterizing the Exponential-Space Hierarchy Via Partial Fixpoints
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02596