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====== Remarks on WS1S Complexity ====== | ====== Remarks on WS1S Complexity ====== | ||
- | ===== Complexity ===== | + | ===== Complexity of One Algorithm ===== |
- | The construction in [[Using Automata to Decide WS1S]] determinizes automaton whenever it needs to perform negation. Moreover, existential quantifier forces the automaton to be non-deterministic. Therefore, with every alternation between $\exists$ and $\forall$ we obtain an exponential blowup. For formula with n alternations we have $2^{2^{\ldots 2}}$ complexity with a stack of exponentials of height $n$. Is there a better algorithm? The following paper shows that, in the worst case such behavior cannot be avoided, because of such high expressive power of MSOL over strings. | + | The construction in [[Using Automata to Decide WS1S]] determinizes automaton whenever it needs to perform negation. Moreover, existential quantifier forces the automaton to be non-deterministic. Therefore, with every alternation between $\exists$ and $\forall$ we obtain an exponential blowup. For formula with n alternations we have $2^{2^{\ldots 2}}$ complexity with a stack of exponentials of height $n$. Is there a better algorithm? |
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+ | ===== Lower Bound ===== | ||
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+ | The following paper shows that, in the worst case such behavior cannot be avoided, because of such high expressive power of MSOL over strings. | ||
* [[http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~meyer/stock-circuit-jacm.pdf|Cosmological Lower Bound on the Circuit Complexity of a Small Problem in Logic]] (See the introduction and the conclusion sections) | * [[http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~meyer/stock-circuit-jacm.pdf|Cosmological Lower Bound on the Circuit Complexity of a Small Problem in Logic]] (See the introduction and the conclusion sections) |