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The First Order Truth Behind Undecidability of Regular Path Queries Determinacy

Authors Grzegorz Głuch, Jerzy Marcinkowski, Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja

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Grzegorz Głuch
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Poland
Jerzy Marcinkowski
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Poland
Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Poland

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Supported by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) grant 2016/23/B/ST6/01438.

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Grzegorz Głuch, Jerzy Marcinkowski, and Piotr Ostropolski-Nalewaja. The First Order Truth Behind Undecidability of Regular Path Queries Determinacy. In 22nd International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 127, pp. 15:1-15:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICDT.2019.15

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In our paper [Głuch, Marcinkowski, Ostropolski-Nalewaja, LICS ACM, 2018] we have solved an old problem stated in [Calvanese, De Giacomo, Lenzerini, Vardi, SPDS ACM, 2000] showing that query determinacy is undecidable for Regular Path Queries. Here a strong generalisation of this result is shown, and - we think - a very unexpected one. We prove that no regularity is needed: determinacy remains undecidable even for finite unions of conjunctive path queries.

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  • Information systems → Graph-based database models
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  • database theory
  • query
  • view
  • determinacy
  • recursive path queries

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