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Characterizing polynomial Ramsey quantifiers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Ronald de Haan  and
Jakub Szymanik
Ronald de Haan
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jakub Szymanik*
Affiliation:
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*
*Corresponding author. Email: jakub.szymanik@gmail.com
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Abstract

Ramsey quantifiers are a natural object of study not only for logic and computer science but also for the 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.

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Keywords:Generalized quantifiersRamsey propertiescomputational complexity dichotomyExponential Time Hypothesis

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , June 2019 , pp. 896 - 908
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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