Title
Satisfiability of the Two-Variable Fragment of First-Order Logic over Trees
Abstract
We consider the satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic over finite unranked trees. We work with signatures consisting of some unary predicates and the binary navigational predicates child, right sibling, and their respective transitive closures. We prove that the satisfiability problem for the logic containing all these predicates is EXPSPACE-complete. Further, we consider the restriction of the class of structures to singular trees, i.e., we assume that at every node precisely one unary predicate holds. We observe that the full logic and even for unordered trees remain EXPSPACE-complete over finite singular trees, but the complexity decreases for some weaker logics. Namely, the logic with one binary predicate, descendant is NEXPTIME-complete, and its guarded version is PSPACE-complete over finite singular trees, even though both these logics are EXPSPACE-complete over arbitrary finite trees.
Year
Venue
Field
2013
CoRR
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Unary operation,Boolean satisfiability problem,Satisfiability,Algorithm,EXPSPACE,First-order logic,Predicate (grammar),GF(2),Mathematics,Binary number
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1304.7204
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
witold charatonik134928.71
Emanuel Kieronski211413.85
Filip Mazowiecki3209.26