Cardinality and counting quantifiers on omega-automatic structures
Abstract
We investigate structures that can be represented by omega-automata, so called omega-automatic structures, and prove that relations defined over such structures in first-order logic expanded by the first-order quantifiers `there exist at most many', 'there exist finitely many' and 'there exist modulo many' are omega-regular. The proof identifies certain algebraic properties of omega-semigroups. As a consequence an omega-regular equivalence relation of countable index has an omega-regular set of representatives. This implies Blumensath's conjecture that a countable structure with an -automatic presentation can be represented using automata on finite words. This also complements a very recent result of Hj\"orth, Khoussainov, Montalban and Nies showing that there is an omega-automatic structure which has no injective presentation.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.2866,
title = {Cardinality and counting quantifiers on omega-automatic structures},
author = {Lukasz Kaiser and Sasha Rubin and Vince Bárány},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.2866},
year = {2008}
}