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--- sav08:graphs_as_interpretations [2008/03/19 15:43]
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+++ sav08:graphs_as_interpretations [2008/03/19 16:37]
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 Directed graph is is given by a set of vertices $V$ and a set of edges $E \subseteq V \times V$.  Graph is therefore specified by an [[First-Order Logic Semantics|interpretation]] $I = (V,\alpha)$ in languge ${\cal L} = \{edge\}$ with $\alpha(edge) = E$.
-For several properties of graphs we can write down a formula $F$ such that property holds for graph iff $F$ is true in the interpretation $I$ representing the graph.
+Example: $D = \{1,2,3,4\}$, $\alpha(edge) = \{ (1,2), (2,3), (1,3), (3,4) \}$.
+For a class of graph properties we can write down a formula $F$ such that property holds for graph iff $F$ is true in the interpretation $I$ representing the graph.
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-Note: there is no formula $F$ in this language ${\cal L} = \{edge\}$ that characterizes property "graph has no cycles".  All properties expressed in first-order logic on graphs are "local".
+Note: there is no formula $F$ in this language ${\cal L} = \{edge\}$ that characterizes property "graph has no cycles".  All properties expressed in first-order logic on graphs are "local". Intuitively, formula with $k$ universal quantifiers says that if we pick any set of $k$ vertices in the graph, then they (and their close neighbors) can induce only one of the finitely many specified subgraphs.
   * [[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/benedikt95relational.html|Relational Expressive Power of Constraint Query Language]]
   * [[http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/64580/0|H. Gaifman, On local and non-local properties, in Logic Colloquium '81, North Holland, 1982]]
+Many more properties become expressible if we take as domain $D$ the set of all subsets of $V$ and allow set operations in our language.