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Complexity of the Two-Variable Fragment with Counting Quantifiers

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The satisfiability and finite satisfiability problems for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic with counting quantifiers are both in NEXPTIME, even when counting quantifiers are coded succinctly.

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Pratt-Hartmann, I. Complexity of the Two-Variable Fragment with Counting Quantifiers. J Logic Lang Inf 14, 369–395 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10849-005-5791-1

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