• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: Counting Computations with Formulae: Logical Characterisations of Counting Complexity Classes
  • Contributor: Achilleos, Antonis [Author]; Chalki, Aggeliki [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2023
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.7
  • Keywords: counting problems ; quantitative logics ; descriptive complexity ; #P
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  • Description: We present quantitative logics with two-step semantics based on the framework of quantitative logics introduced by Arenas et al. (2020) and the two-step semantics defined in the context of weighted logics by Gastin & Monmege (2018). We show that some of the fragments of our logics augmented with a least fixed point operator capture interesting classes of counting problems. Specifically, we answer an open question in the area of descriptive complexity of counting problems by providing logical characterisations of two subclasses of #P, namely SpanL and TotP, that play a significant role in the study of approximable counting problems. Moreover, we define logics that capture FPSPACE and SpanPSPACE, which are counting versions of PSPACE.
  • Access State: Open Access