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Dependency Concepts up to Equivalence

Authors Erich Grädel, Matthias Hoelzel



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Erich Grädel
  • Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Matthias Hoelzel
  • Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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Erich Grädel and Matthias Hoelzel. Dependency Concepts up to Equivalence. In 27th EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 119, pp. 25:1-25:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2018.25

Abstract

Modern logics of dependence and independence are based on different variants of atomic dependency statements (such as dependence, exclusion, inclusion, or independence) and on team semantics: A formula is evaluated not with a single assignment of values to the free variables, but with a set of such assignments, called a team. In this paper we explore logics of dependence and independence where the atomic dependency statements cannot distinguish elements up to equality, but only up to a given equivalence relation (which may model observational indistinguishabilities, for instance between states of a computational process or between values obtained in an experiment). Our main goal is to analyse the power of such logics, by identifying equally expressive fragments of existential second-order logic or greatest fixed-point logic, with relations that are closed under the given equivalence. Using an adaptation of the Ehrenfeucht-Fraïssé method we further study conditions on the given equivalences under which these logics collapse to first-order logic, are equivalent to full existential second-order logic, or are strictly between first-order and existential second-order logic.

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  • Theory of computation → Logic
Keywords
  • Logics of dependence and independence
  • Team semantics
  • Existential second-order logic
  • Observational equivalence
  • Expressive power

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