On the Descriptive Complexity of Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
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Abstract
Finite-domain constraint satisfaction problems are either solvable by Datalog or not even expressible in fixed-point logic with counting. The border between the two regimes can be described by a universal-algebraic minor condition. For infinite-domain constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), the situation is more complicated even if the template structure of the CSP is model-theoretically tame. We prove that there is no Maltsev condition that characterizes Datalog already for the CSPs of first-order reducts of (<); such CSPs are called temporal CSPs and are of fundamental importance in infinite-domain constraint satisfaction. Our main result is a complete classification of temporal CSPs that can be expressed in one of the following logical formalisms: Datalog, fixed-point logic (with or without counting), or fixed-point logic with the mod-2 rank operator. The classification shows that many of the equivalent conditions in the finite fail to capture expressibility in Datalog or fixed-point logic already for temporal CSPs.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 3566051 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-58 |
| Number of pages | 58 |
| Journal | Journal of the ACM |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85147249842 |
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| WOS | 000912554900002 |
| ORCID | /0000-0001-8228-3611/work/142241227 |
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Keywords
- Maltsev conditions, Temporal constraint satisfaction problems, fixed-point logic, Fixed-point logic