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Quantifiers Closed Under Partial Polymorphisms

Authors Anuj Dawar , Lauri Hella

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  • Theory of computation → Finite Model Theory
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  • generalized quantifiers
  • constraint satisfaction problems
  • pebble games
  • finite variable logics
  • descriptive complexity theory

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Abstract

We study Lindström quantifiers that satisfy certain closure properties which are motivated by the study of polymorphisms in the context of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). When the algebra of polymorphisms of a finite structure 𝔅 satisfies certain equations, this gives rise to a natural closure condition on the class of structures that map homomorphically to 𝔅. The collection of quantifiers that satisfy closure conditions arising from a fixed set of equations are rather more general than those arising as CSP. For any such conditions 𝒫, we define a pebble game that delimits the distinguishing power of the infinitary logic with all quantifiers that are 𝒫-closed. We use the pebble game to show that the problem of deciding whether a system of linear equations is solvable in ℤ / 2ℤ is not expressible in the infinitary logic with all quantifiers closed under a near-unanimity condition.

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Anuj Dawar and Lauri Hella. Quantifiers Closed Under Partial Polymorphisms. In 32nd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 288, pp. 23:1-23:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2024.23

Author Details

Anuj Dawar
  • Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK
Lauri Hella
  • Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Finland

Funding

  • Dawar, Anuj: funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee: grant number EP/X028259/1.

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