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First order theory on $G(n, c n^{-1})$

Probability 2018-02-02 v1

Abstract

A well-known result of Shelah and Spencer tells us that the almost sure theory for first order language on the random graph sequence {G(n,cn1)}\left\{G(n, cn^{-1})\right\} is not complete. This paper proposes and proves what the complete set of completions of the almost sure theory for {G(n,cn1)}\left\{G(n, c n^{-1})\right\} should be. The almost sure theory TT consists of two sentence groups: the first states that all the components are trees or unicyclic components, and the second states that, given any kNk \in \mathbb{N} and any finite tree tt, there are at least kk components isomorphic to tt. We define a kk-completion of TT to be a first order property AA, such that if T+AT + A holds for a graph, we can fully describe the first order sentences of quantifier depth k\leq k that hold for that graph. We show that a kk-completion AA specifies the numbers, up to "cutoff" kk, of the (finitely many) unicyclic component types of given parameters (that only depend on kk) that the graph contains. A complete set of kk-completions is then the finite collection of all possible kk-completions.

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@article{arxiv.1802.00059,
  title  = {First order theory on $G(n, c n^{-1})$},
  author = {Moumanti Podder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.00059},
  year   = {2018}
}

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