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A modal perspective on monadic second-order alternation hierarchies

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A modal perspective on monadic second-order alternation hierarchies
abstract. We establish that the quantifier alternation hierarchy of formulae of Second-Order Propositional Modal Logic (SOPML) induces an infinite corresponding semantic hierarchy over the class of finite directed graphs. This is a response to an open problem posed in [4] and [8]. We also provide modal characterizations of the expressive power of Monadic Second-Order Logic (MSO) and address a number of points that should promote the potential advantages of viewing MSO and its fragments from the modal perspective.
Antti Kuusisto
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where AIML
Authors Antti Kuusisto
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