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Characterizations of the Expressive Power of Logics over Trees

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This talk will be about the expressive power of logics over trees. More precisely we will try to derive expressibility and inexpressibility results in a generic way.

Our yardstick will be MSO , and all the logical formalisms we will consider can be seen as fragments of MSO (monadic second order logic). Given a logical formalism L, we will try to see which of the properties expressible in MSO are also expressible in L by exhibiting a decidable characterization of L. By this we mean an algorithm deciding whether a formula of MSO is equivalent to a formula of L or not.

This talk will try to survey the known results in this research area.

This talk is part of the Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory) series.

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