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Thomas Schwentick ; Nicole Schweikardt.
This article shows that there exist two particular linear orders such that first-order logic with these two linear orders has the same expressive power as first-order logic with the Bit-predicate FO(Bit). As a corollary we obtain that there also exists a built-in permutation such that first-order […]
Published on December 14, 2011
Arnaud Durand ; Nicole Schweikardt ; Luc Segoufin.
A class of relational databases has low degree if for all $\delta>0$, all but finitely many databases in the class have degree at most $n^{\delta}$, where $n$ is the size of the database. Typical examples are databases of bounded degree or of degree bounded by $\log n$. It is known that over a […]
Published on May 10, 2022