A dichotomy result for Ramsey quantifiers

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • V. de Paiva
  • R. de Queiroz
  • L.S. Moss
  • D. Leivant
  • A.G. de Oliveira
Book title Logic, Language, Information, and Computation
Book subtitle 22nd International Workshop, WoLLIC 2015, Bloomington, IN, USA, July 20-23, 2015 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783662477083
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783662477090
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 22nd International Workshop Logic, Language, Information, and Computation
Pages (from-to) 69-80
Publisher Heidelberg: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Ramsey quantifiers are a natural object of study not only for logic and computer science, but also for formal semantics of natural language. Restricting attention to finite models leads to the natural question whether all Ramsey quantifiers are either polynomial-time computable or NP-hard, and whether we can give a natural characterization of the polynomial-time computable quantifiers. In this paper, we first show that there exist intermediate Ramsey quantifiers and then we prove a dichotomy result for a large and natural class of Ramsey quantifiers, based on a reasonable and widely-believed complexity assumption. We show that the polynomial-time computable quantifiers in this class are exactly the constant-log-bounded Ramsey quantifiers.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47709-0_6
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