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Tree Languages Defined in First-Order Logic with One Quantifier Alternation

Mikolaj Bojanczyk ; Luc Segoufin.

We study tree languages that can be defined in \Delta_2 . These are tree languages definable by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is forall exists, and simultaneously by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is . For the quantifier free part we consider two signatures, either the&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Unary negation

Luc Segoufin ; Balder ten Cate.

We study fragments of first-order logic and of least fixed point logic that allow only unary negation: negation of formulas with at most one free variable. These logics generalize many interesting known formalisms, including modal logic and the $\mu$-calculus, as well as conjunctive queries and&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Datalog Rewritings of Regular Path Queries using Views

Nadime Francis ; Luc Segoufin ; Cristina Sirangelo.

We consider query answering using views on graph databases, i.e. databases structured as edge-labeled graphs. We mainly consider views and queries specified by Regular Path Queries (RPQ). These are queries selecting pairs of nodes in a graph database that are connected via a path whose sequence of&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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FO2(<,+1,~) on data trees, data tree automata and branching vector addition systems

Florent Jacquemard ; Luc Segoufin ; Jerémie Dimino.

A data tree is an unranked ordered tree where each node carries a label from a finite alphabet and a datum from some infinite domain. We consider the two variable first order logic FO2(<,+1,~) over data trees. Here +1 refers to the child and the next sibling relations while < refers to the&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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Deciding definability in FO2(<h,<v) on trees

Thomas Place ; Luc Segoufin.

We provide a decidable characterization of regular forest languages definable in FO2(<h,<v). By FO2(<h,<v) we refer to the two variable fragment of first order logic built from the descendant relation and the following sibling relation. In terms of expressive power it corresponds to a fragment of&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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First-order queries on classes of structures with bounded expansion

Wojtek Kazana ; Luc Segoufin.

We consider the evaluation of first-order queries over classes of databases with bounded expansion. The notion of bounded expansion is fairly broad and generalizes bounded degree, bounded treewidth and exclusion of at least one minor. It was known that over a class of databases with bounded&nbsp;[&hellip;]

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