A New Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Game for Dependence Logic

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Hauptverfasser: Puljujärvi, Joni, Väänänen, Jouko
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author Puljujärvi, Joni
Väänänen, Jouko
author_facet Puljujärvi, Joni
Väänänen, Jouko
contents We define a new Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game for dependence logic. The previously known rendition of such a game was based on moves that are teams. Since teams can be massive, making team moves may be quite complicated. To remedy this, our new Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game for dependence logic has only moves that consist of single elements, as in the classical Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game of first order logic. A new feature of the game is that a player can declare that their move is made on the basis of certain previous moves only and thereby in a sense independent of other moves. We show that our game characterizes elementary equivalence in dependence logic.
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spellingShingle A New Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Game for Dependence Logic
Puljujärvi, Joni
Väänänen, Jouko
Logic
Logic in Computer Science
03C80
F.4.1
We define a new Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game for dependence logic. The previously known rendition of such a game was based on moves that are teams. Since teams can be massive, making team moves may be quite complicated. To remedy this, our new Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game for dependence logic has only moves that consist of single elements, as in the classical Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé game of first order logic. A new feature of the game is that a player can declare that their move is made on the basis of certain previous moves only and thereby in a sense independent of other moves. We show that our game characterizes elementary equivalence in dependence logic.
title A New Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé Game for Dependence Logic
topic Logic
Logic in Computer Science
03C80
F.4.1
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00812