The height of piecewise-testable languages and the complexity of the logic of subwords
The height of a piecewise-testable language $L$ is the maximum length of the words needed to define $L$ by excluding and requiring given subwords. The height of $L$ is an important descriptive complexity measure that has not yet been investigated in a systematic way. This article develops a series o...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Logical methods in computer science Jg. 15, Issue 2; H. 2 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Logical Methods in Computer Science Association
01.04.2019
Logical Methods in Computer Science e.V |
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| ISSN: | 1860-5974, 1860-5974 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The height of a piecewise-testable language $L$ is the maximum length of the words needed to define $L$ by excluding and requiring given subwords. The height of $L$ is an important descriptive complexity measure that has not yet been investigated in a systematic way. This article develops a series of new techniques for bounding the height of finite languages and of languages obtained by taking closures by subwords, superwords and related operations. As an application of these results, we show that $\mathsf{FO}^2(A^*,\sqsubseteq)$, the two-variable fragment of the first-order logic of sequences with the subword ordering, can only express piecewise-testable properties and has elementary complexity.
Comment: This article is a full version of "The height of piecewise-testable languages with applications in logical complexity", in Proc. CSL 2016, LIPiCS 62:37 |
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| ISSN: | 1860-5974 1860-5974 |
| DOI: | 10.23638/LMCS-15(2:6)2019 |