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Game Comonads & Generalised Quantifiers

Logic in Computer Science 2024-08-07 v6

Abstract

Game comonads, introduced by Abramsky, Dawar and Wang and developed by Abramsky and Shah, give an interesting categorical semantics to some Spoiler-Duplicator games that are common in finite model theory. In particular they expose connections between one-sided and two-sided games, and parameters such as treewidth and treedepth and corresponding notions of decomposition. In the present paper, we expand the realm of game comonads to logics with generalised quantifiers. In particular, we introduce a comonad graded by two parameters nkn \leq k such that isomorphisms in the resulting Kleisli category are exactly Duplicator winning strategies in Hella's nn-bijection game with kk pebbles. We define a one-sided version of this game which allows us to provide a categorical semantics for a number of logics with generalised quantifiers. We also give a novel notion of tree decomposition that emerges from the construction.

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@article{arxiv.2006.16039,
  title  = {Game Comonads & Generalised Quantifiers},
  author = {Adam Ó Conghaile and Anuj Dawar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.16039},
  year   = {2024}
}
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