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We review recent work in the field of generalized quantifiers on finite models. We give an idea of the methods that are available in this area. Main emphasis is on definability issues, such as whether there is a logic for the PTIME properties of unordered finite models
We survey recent results on logics with counting and their local properties. We first consider game-theoretic characterizations of first-order logic and its counting extensions provided by unary generalized quantifiers. We then study Gaifman’s and Hanf’s locality theorems, their connection with game characterizations, and examples of their usage in proving expressivity bounds for first-order logic...
This paper presents a perspective on the relationship between Lindström quantifiers in model theory and oracle computations in complexity theory. We do not study this relationship here in full generality (indeed, there is much more work to do in order to obtain a full appreciation), but instead we examine what amounts to a thread of research in this topic running from the motivating results, concerning...
Generalized quantifiers are an important concept in model-theoretic logic which has applications in different fields such as linguistics, philosophical logic and computer science. In this paper, we consider a novel application in the field of logic programming, which has been presented recently. The enhancement of logic programs by generalized quantifiers is a convenient tool for interfacing extra-logical...
A notion of generalized quantifier in computational complexity theory is explored and used to give a unified treatment of leaf language definability, oracle separations, type 2 operators, and circuits with monoidal gates. Relations to Lindström quantifiers are pointed out.
In recent years, generalized quantifiers (see [H3]) have received quite a lot of novel interest because of their applications to computer science and linguistics. Their definability theory has made considerable progress during the last decade, which will be the subject of the next section. The proofs of many of these results often use results of Ramsey theory, such as theorems of van derWaerden and...
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