Upwards Closed Dependencies in Team Semantics

We prove that adding upwards closed first-order dependency atoms to first-order logic with team semantics does not increase its expressive power (with respect to sentences), and that the same remains true if we also add constancy atoms. As a consequence, the negations of functional dependence, condi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pietro Galliani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2013-07-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1305.4288v2