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Finite Model Theory

By Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus , Jörg Flum

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
ISBN
3-540-28787-6, 3-540-65758-4, 978-3-540-28787-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15750741 bytes)
Series
Springer Monographs in Mathematics
Edition
2nd
Pages
360\362
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Library
kolxoz
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

This is a thoroughly revised and enlarged second edition that presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed-point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. The book is written in such a way that the respective parts on model theory and descriptive complexity theory may be read independently.

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