@InProceedings{ganian_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.42, author = {Ganian, Robert and de Haan, Ronald and Kanj, Iyad and Szeider, Stefan}, title = {{On Existential MSO and its Relation to ETH}}, booktitle = {41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016)}, pages = {42:1--42:14}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-016-3}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2016}, volume = {58}, editor = {Faliszewski, Piotr and Muscholl, Anca and Niedermeier, Rolf}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.42}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-64556}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.42}, annote = {Keywords: exponential time hypothesis (ETH), monadic second order logic, subexponential time complexity, serf-reducibility, logic games} }