Successor-Invariant First-Order Logic on Classes of Bounded Degree (Extended Abstract)

Successor-Invariant First-Order Logic on Classes of Bounded Degree (Extended Abstract)

Julien Grange

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Sister Conferences Best Papers. Pages 4775-4779. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/649

We study the expressive power of successor-invariant first-order logic, which is an extension of first-order logic where the usage of a successor relation on the vertices of the graph is allowed, as long as the validity of formulas is independent on the choice of a particular successor. We show that when the degree is bounded, successor-invariant first-order logic is no more expressive than first-order logic.
Keywords:
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Logics for Knowledge Representation