On Existentially First-Order Definable Languages and Their Relation to NP

DOI10.1051/ITA:1999116MaRDI QIDQ4718893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bernd Borchert, Dietrich Kuske, Frank Stephan

Publication date 6 December 2000

Published in RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ITA_1999__33_3_259_0/, https://eudml.org/doc/222021

zbMATH Keywords

automataexistential definabilityfirst-order logicpolynomial-time hierarchyregular language

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automata and formal grammars in connection with logical questions (03D05) Complexity of computation (including implicit computational complexity) (03D15) Complexity classes (hierarchies, relations among complexity classes, etc.) (68Q15)

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