Logical limit laws for Mallows random permutations
Abstract
A random permutation of follows the distribution with parameter if is proportional to for all . Here denotes the number of inversions of . We consider properties of permutations that can be expressed by the sentences of two different logical languages. Namely, the theory of one bijection (), which describes permutations via a single binary relation, and the theory of two orders (), where we describe permutations by two total orders. We say that the convergence law holds with respect to one of these languages if, for every sentence in the language, the probability converges to a limit as . If moreover that limit is in the set for all sentences, then the zero-one law holds. We will show that with respect to the distribution satisfies the zero-one law when is fixed, and for fixed the convergence law fails. (In the case when Compton has shown the convergence law holds but not the zero-one law.) We will prove that with respect to the distribution satisfies the convergence law but not the zero-one law for any fixed , and that if satisfies then fails the convergence law. Here denotes the discrete inverse of the tower function.
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@article{arxiv.2302.10148,
title = {Logical limit laws for Mallows random permutations},
author = {Tobias Muller and Fiona Skerman and Teun W. Verstraaten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.10148},
year = {2024}
}
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47 pages. Minor changes since the last version