Finite Model Theory: Second Edition

by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus and Jörg Flum

Book Overview

This is a thoroughly revised and enlarged second edition that presents the main results of descriptive complexity theory, that is, the connections between axiomatizability of classes of finite structures and their complexity with respect to time and space bounds. The logics that are important in this context include fixed-point logics, transitive closure logics, and also certain infinitary languages; their model theory is studied in full detail. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540287876
• ISBN13: 9783540287872
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"