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Finite quantifier hierarchies in relational algebras
Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Algorithmic aspects of algebra and logic, Tome 274 (2011), pp. 291-296.

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For a given structure of finite signature, one can construct a hierarchy of classes of relations definable in this structure according to the number of quantifier alternations in the formulas expressing the relations. In ordinary examples, this hierarchy is either infinite (as in the arithmetic of addition and multiplication of natural numbers) or stabilizes very rapidly (in structures with decidable theories, such as the field of real numbers). In the present paper, we construct a series of examples showing that the above-mentioned hierarchy may have an arbitrary finite length. The proof employs a modification of the Ehrenfeucht game. 
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A. L. Semenov; S. F. Soprunov. Finite quantifier hierarchies in relational algebras. Trudy Matematicheskogo Instituta imeni V.A. Steklova, Algorithmic aspects of algebra and logic, Tome 274 (2011), pp. 291-296. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/TM_2011_274_a15/

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