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An Optimal Construction for the Barthelmann-Schwentick Normal Form on Classes of Structures of Bounded Degree

10/29/2018
by   André Frochaux, et al.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Building on the locality conditions for first-order logic by Hanf and Gaifman, Barthelmann and Schwentick showed in 1999 that every first-order formula is equivalent to a formula of the shape ∃ x_1 ∃ x_k ∀ y ϕ where quantification in ϕ is relativised to elements of distance ≤ r from y. Such a formula will be called Barthelmann-Schwentick normal form (BSNF) in the following. However, although the proof is effective, it leads to a non-elementary blow-up of the BSNF in terms of the size of the original formula. We show that, if equivalence on the class of all structures, or even only finite forests, is required, this non-elementary blow-up is indeed unavoidable. We then examine restricted classes of structures where more efficient algorithms are possible. In this direction, we show that on any class of structures of degree ≤ 2, BSNF can be computed in 2-fold exponential time with respect to the size of the input formula. And for any class of structures of degree ≤ d for some d≥ 3, this is possible in 3-fold exponential time. For both cases, we provide matching lower bounds.

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