A. Dawar

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DAG-Width and Parity Games
TLDR
The natural adaptation of the cops-and-robber game to directed graphs is considered and it is shown that monotone strategies in the game yield a measure with an associated notion of graph decomposition that can be seen to describe how close a directed graph is to a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Expand
The dag-width of directed graphs
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It is shown that the problem of determining the winner of a parity game is solvable in polynomial time on graphs of bounded dag-width, a consequence of which is that certain NP-complete problems such as Hamiltonicity and disjoint paths arePolynomial-time computable on graph of bounded dagger-width. Expand
A restricted second order logic for finite structures
We introduce a restricted version of second order logic SOω in which the second order quantifiers range over relations that are closed under the equivalence relation ≡k of k variable equivalence, for… Expand
Modal characterisation theorems over special classes of frames
TLDR
It is found that monadic second-order logic is no more expressive than first-order as far as bisimulation invariant properties are concerned — though both are more expressive here than basic modal logic. Expand
Modal characterisation theorems over special classes of frames
  • A. Dawar, Martin Otto
  • Mathematics, Computer Science
  • 20th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer…
  • 26 June 2005
TLDR
The present investigation primarily concerns ramifications for specific classes of structures defined through conditions on the underlying frames, with a focus on frame classes that play a major role in modal correspondence theory and often correspond to typical application domains of modal logics. Expand
Parameterized Complexity of First-Order Logic
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It is shown that if C is a class of graphs which is nowhere dense then rst-order model-checking is xed-parameter tractable on C, which essentially gives a precise characterisation of classes for which FO model- checking is tractable. Expand
Infinitary Logic and Inductive Definability over Finite Structures
The extensions of first-order logic with a least fixed point operator (FO + LFP) and with a partial fixed point operator (FO + PFP) are known to capture the complexity classes P and PSPACE… Expand
Affine Systems of Equations and Counting Infinitary Logic
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It is shown that testing the solvability of systems of equations over a finite Abelian group, a tractable CSP that was previously known not to be definable in Datalog, is not Definable in an infinitary logic with counting and hence that it is not definite in least fixed point logic or its extension with counting. Expand
FINITE MODEL THEORY (Perspectives in Mathematical Logic)
Generalized Quantifiers and Logical Reducibilities
  • A. Dawar
  • Mathematics, Computer Science
  • J. Log. Comput.
  • 1 April 1995
TLDR
It is shown that if there is any recursively enumerable set of quantifiers that can be added to FO (or LFP) to capture P, then there is one with strong uniformity conditions, and this strengthens results in [Hel92] and [KV92a]. Expand
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