Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems in Fixed-Point Logic
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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 strong height-one Maltsev condition. For infinite-domain 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 (Q; <); 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 Boolean 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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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2020 |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York |
| Pages | 237-251 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-1-4503-7104-9 |
| Publication status | Published - 8 Jul 2020 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | LICS: Logic in Computer Science |
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| ISSN | 1043-6871 |
Conference
| Title | 35th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2020 |
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| Duration | 8 - 11 July 2020 |
| City | Saarbrucken |
| Country | Germany |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-8228-3611/work/142241065 |
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Keywords
- fixed-point logic, Maltsev conditions, temporal constraint satisfaction problems