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Generic Expression Hardness Results for Primitive Positive Formula Comparison

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Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2011)

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We study the expression complexity of two basic problems involving the comparison of primitive positive formulas: equivalence and containment. We give two generic hardness results for the studied problems, and discuss evidence that they are optimal and yield, for each of the problems, a complexity trichotomy.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

    Simone Bova

  2. Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

    Hubie Chen

  3. Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Matthew Valeriote

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  1. ICE-TCS, School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, IS 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Luca Aceto

  2. Fakultät für Informatik, Universität Wien, Universitätsstraße10/9, 1090, Wien, Österreich, Austria

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  3. Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00, Praha 1, Czech Republic

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Bova, S., Chen, H., Valeriote, M. (2011). Generic Expression Hardness Results for Primitive Positive Formula Comparison. In: Aceto, L., Henzinger, M., Sgall, J. (eds) Automata, Languages and Programming. ICALP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6756. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22012-8_27

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