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Descriptive complexity for pictures languages (extended abstract)

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This paper deals with descriptive complexity of picture languages of any dimension by syntactical fragments of existential second-order logic.- We uniformly generalize to any dimension the characterization by Giammarresi et al. \cite{GRST96} of the class of \emph{recognizable} picture languages in existential monadic second-order logic. - We state several logical characterizations of the class of picture languages recognized in linear time on nondeterministic cellular automata of any dimension. They are the first machine-independent characterizations of complexity classes of cellular automata.Our characterizations are essentially deduced from normalization results we prove for first-order and existential second-order logics over pictures. They are obtained in a general and uniform framework that allows to extend them to other "regular" structures. Finally, we describe some hierarchy results that show the optimality of our logical characterizations and delineate their limits.

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hal-01085892 , version 1 (21-11-2014)

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Etienne Grandjean, Frédéric Olive, Gaétan Richard. Descriptive complexity for pictures languages (extended abstract). Logic in Computer Science (LICS), 2012 27th Annual IEEE Symposium on, Jun 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia. ⟨hal-01085892⟩
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