Descriptive Complexity Theory for Constraint Databases

  • Authors:
  • Erich Grädel;Stephan Kreutzer

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CSL '99 Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop and 8th Annual Conference of the EACSL on Computer Science Logic
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We consider the data complexity of various logics on two important classes of constraint databases: dense order and linear constraint databases. For dense order databases, we present a general result allowing us to lift results on logics capturing complexity classes from the class of finite ordered databases to dense order constraint databases. Considering linear constraints, we show that there is a significant gap between the data complexity of first-order queries on linear constraint databases over the real and the natural numbers. This is done by proving that for arbitrary high levels of the Presburger arithmetic there are complete first-order queries on databases over (N,