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<p><b>Fagin's theorem</b> is the oldest result of <a href="page.php?w=descriptive_complexity">descriptive complexity theory</a>, a branch of <a href="page.php?w=computational_complexity_theory">computational complexity theory</a> that characterizes <a href="page.php?w=complexity_class">complexity class</a>es in terms of logic-based descriptions of their problems rather than by the behavior of algorithms for solving those problems.The theorem states that the set of all properties expressible in existential <a href="page.php?w=second-order_logic">second-order logic</a></p><p>
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