Comparing the succinctness of monadic query languages over finite trees

DOI10.1051/ita:2004017zbMath1067.03018MaRDI QIDQ4659888

Nicole Schweikardt, Martin Grohe

Publication date: 21 March 2005

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

Full work available at URL: http://www.numdam.org/item?id=ITA_2004__38_4_343_0

zbMATH Keywords

monadic second-order logic; monadic least fixed point logic; finite automata on labelled finite trees; full modal mu-calculus; monadic datalog; stratified monadic datalog

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

68P15: Database theory

68Q45: Formal languages and automata

03D05: Automata and formal grammars in connection with logical questions

03B25: Decidability of theories and sets of sentences

68Q17: Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.)

03C13: Model theory of finite structures

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