P (complexity) - Alternative Characterizations

Alternative Characterizations

In descriptive complexity, P can be described as the problems expressible in FO (LFP), the class of first-order logic with a least fixed point operator added to it. In Immerman's 1999 textbook on descriptive complexity, Immerman ascribes this result to Vardi and to Immerman.

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