English

Cardinality and counting quantifiers on omega-automatic structures

Logic in Computer Science 2008-02-21 v1

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 0\aleph_0 many', 'there exist finitely many' and 'there exist kk modulo mm 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 ω\omega-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.

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@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}
}
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