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Pseudo-finiteness of arbitrary graphs of bounded shrub-depth

Combinatorics 2022-02-15 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

We consider classes of arbitrary (finite or infinite) graphs of bounded shrub-depth, specifically the classes TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d) of arbitrary graphs that have tree models of height dd and rr labels. We show that the graphs of TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d) are MSO\mathrm{MSO}-pseudo-finite relative to the class TMrf(d)\mathrm{TM}^{\text{f}}_r(d) of finite graphs of TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d); that is, that every MSO\mathrm{MSO} sentence true in a graph of TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d) is also true in a graph of TMrf(d)\mathrm{TM}^{\text{f}}_r(d). We also show that TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d) is closed under ultraproducts and ultraroots. These results have two consequences. The first is that the index of the MSO[m]\mathrm{MSO}[m]-equivalence relation on graphs of TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d) is bounded by a (d+1)(d+1)-fold exponential in mm. The second is that TMr(d)\mathrm{TM}_r(d) is exactly the class of all graphs that are MSO\mathrm{MSO}-pseudo-finite relative to TMrf(d)\mathrm{TM}^{\text{f}}_r(d).

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@article{arxiv.2202.06308,
  title  = {Pseudo-finiteness of arbitrary graphs of bounded shrub-depth},
  author = {Abhisekh Sankaran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.06308},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

17 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2010.05799