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Axiomatizing rectangular grids with no extra non-unary relations

Logic in Computer Science 2019-12-23 v1

Abstract

We construct a formula ϕ\phi which axiomatizes non-narrow rectangular grids without using any binary relations other than the grid neighborship relations. As a corollary, we prove that a set ANA \subseteq \mathbb{N} is a spectrum of a formula which has only planar models if numbers nAn \in A can be recognized by a non-deterministic Turing machine (or a one-dimensional cellular automaton) in time t(n)t(n) and space s(n)s(n), where t(n)s(n)nt(n)s(n) \leq n and t(n),s(n)=Ω(log(n))t(n),s(n) = \Omega(\log(n)).

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@article{arxiv.1912.09797,
  title  = {Axiomatizing rectangular grids with no extra non-unary relations},
  author = {Eryk Kopczynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09797},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 1 figure

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