On the expressive power of graph logic

  • Authors:
  • Jerzy Marcinkowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland

  • Venue:
  • CSL'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 2006
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Abstract

Graph Logic, a query language being a sublogic of Monadic Second Order Logic is studied in [CGG02]. In the paper [DGG04] the expressiveness power of Graph Logic is examined, and it is shown, for many MSO properties, how to express them in Graph Logic. But despite of the positive examples, it is conjectured there that Graph Logic is strictly less expressive than MSO Logic. Here we give a proof of this conjecture.