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This paper studies tree-automatic ordinals (or equivalently, well-founded linearly ordered sets) together with the ordinal addition operation +. Informally, these are ordinals such that their elements are coded by finite trees for which the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Sanjay Jain , Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Philipp Schlicht , Frank Stephan

An order-theoretic forest is a countable partial order such that the set of elements larger than any element is linearly ordered. It is an order-theoretic tree if any two elements have an upper-bound. The order type of a branch can be any…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bruno Courcelle

Building on early work by Stevo Todorcevic, we describe a theory of stationary subtrees of trees of successor-cardinal height. We define the diagonal union of subsets of a tree, as well as normal ideals on a tree, and we characterize…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Ari Meir Brodsky

The tree share structure proposed by Dockins et al. is an elegant model for tracking disjoint ownership in concurrent separation logic, but decision procedures for tree shares are hard to implement due to a lack of a systematic theoretical…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Xuan-Bach Le , Aquinas Hobor , Anthony W. Lin

Geometry of networks endowed with a causal structure is discussed using the conventional framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics. The popular growing network models appear as particular causal models. We focus on a class of tree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Bialas , Z. Burda , J. Jurkiewicz , A. Krzywicki

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…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Lukasz Kaiser , Sasha Rubin , Vince Bárány

We explore the idea of using automatic and similar kind of presentations of structures to deal with the conceptual problem of natural proof-theoretic ordinal notations. We conclude that this approach still does not meet the goals.

Logic · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Lev D. Beklemishev , Fedor N. Pakhomov

This paper grew out of three tutorial lectures on automatic structures given by the first author at the Logic Colloquium 2007. We discuss variants of automatic structures related to several models of computation: word automata, tree…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-09-22 Bakhadyr Khoussainov , Mia Minnes

We propose several heuristics for mitigating one of the main causes of combinatorial explosion in rank-based complementation of B\"{u}chi automata (BAs): unnecessarily high bounds on the ranks of states. First, we identify elevator…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Vojtěch Havlena , Ondřej Lengál , Barbora Šmahlíková

We obtain new non-asymptotic tail bounds for the height of uniformly random trees with a given degree sequence, simply generated trees and conditioned Bienaym\'e trees (the family trees of branching processes), in the process settling three…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Louigi Addario-Berry , Serte Donderwinkel

Most elementary numerical schemes found useful for solving classical trajectory problems are {\it canonical transformations}. This fact should be make more widely known among teachers of computational physics and Hamiltonian mechanics. From…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-12-18 Siu A. Chin

The classification of separable operator spaces and systems is commonly believed to be intractable. We analyze this belief from the point of view of Borel complexity theory. On one hand we confirm that the classification problems for…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-22 Martín Argerami , Samuel Coskey , Mehrdad Kalantar , Matthew Kennedy , Martino Lupini , Marcin Sabok

In this paper we give an ordinal analysis of the theory of second order arithmetic. We do this by working with proof trees -- that is, "deductions" which may not be well-founded. Working in a suitable theory, we are able to represent…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Henry Towsner

We prove that every quasi-Hopfian finitely presented structure $A$ has a $d$-$\Sigma_2$ Scott sentence, and that if in addition $A$ is computable and $Aut(A)$ satisfies a natural computable condition, then $A$ has a computable…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Gianluca Paolini

Algorithmic meta-theorems state that problems definable in a fixed logic can be solved efficiently on structures with certain properties. An example is Courcelle's Theorem, which states that all problems expressible in monadic second-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Max Bannach , Markus Hecher

Existing ordinal trees and random forests typically use scores that are assigned to the ordered categories, which implies that a higher scale level is used. Versions of ordinal trees are proposed that take the scale level seriously and…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-02 Gerhard Tutz

The existing algorithm to compute and verify the automata associated with an automatic group deals only with the subclass of shortlex automatic groups. This paper describes the extension of the algorithm to deal with automatic groups…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Sarah Rees

We show that graphs generated by collapsible pushdown systems of level 2 are tree-automatic. Even if we allow epsilon-contractions and reachability predicates (with regular constraints) for pairs of configurations, the structures remain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Alexander Kartzow

We specify the frontier of decidability for fragments of the first-order theory of ordinal multiplication. We give a NEXPTIME lower bound for the complexity of the existential fragment of $\langle \omega^{\omega^\lambda}; \times, \omega,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Alexis Bès , Christian Choffrut

Automata for unordered unranked trees are relevant for defining schemas and queries for data trees in Json or Xml format. While the existing notions are well-investigated concerning expressiveness, they all lack a proper notion of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Adrien Boiret , Vincent Hugot , Joachim Niehren , Ralf Treinen