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We consider the following problem for various infinite time machines. If a real is computable relative to large set of oracles such as a set of full measure or just of positive measure, a comeager set, or a nonmeager Borel set, is it…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-10-18 Merlin Carl , Philipp Schlicht

In Combinatorial Game Theory, short game forms are defined recursively over all the positions the two players are allowed to move to. A form is decomposable if it can be expressed as a disjunctive sum of two forms with smaller birthday. If…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Michael Fisher , Neil A. McKay , Rebecca Milley , Richard J. Nowakowski , Carlos P. Santos

In this article we investigate which compact spaces remain compact under countably closed forcing. We prove that, assuming the Continuum Hypothesis, the natural generalizations to $\omega_1$-sequences of the selection principle and…

General Topology · Mathematics 2014-05-26 Rodrigo R. Dias , Franklin D. Tall

Diekert, Matiyasevich and Muscholl proved that the existential first-order theory of a trace monoid over a finite alphabet is decidable. We extend this result to a natural class of trace monoids with infinitely many generators. As an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Alexis Bès , Christian Choffrut

In \cite{Ca2016} and \cite{Ca2018}, we introduced a notion of effective reducibility between set-theoretical $\Pi_{2}$-statements; in \cite{Ca2025}, this was extended to statements of arbitrary (potentially even infinite) quantifier…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Merlin Carl

Some problems of quantum information, cloning, estimation and testing of states, universal coding etc., are special example of the following `state convertibility' problem. In this paper, we consider the dual of this problem, 'observable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-18 Keiji Matsumoto

Let (A) and (B) be two first order structures of the same vocabulary. We shall consider the Ehrenfeucht-Fra{i}sse-game of length omega_1 of A and B which we denote by G_{omega_1}(A,B). This game is like the ordinary Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse-game…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Alan H. Mekler , Saharon Shelah , Jouko Väänänen

In a minimal binary constraint network, every tuple of a constraint relation can be extended to a solution. The tractability or intractability of computing a solution to such a minimal network was a long standing open question. Dechter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Georg Gottlob

We introduce a model of infinitary computation which enhances the infinite time Turing machine model slightly but in a natural way by giving the machines the capability of detecting cardinal stages of computation. The computational strength…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Miha E. Habič

We study 2-player turn-based perfect-information stochastic games with countably infinite state space. The players aim at maximizing/minimizing the probability of a given event (i.e., measurable set of infinite plays), such as reachability,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Stefan Kiefer , Richard Mayr , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , Dominik Wojtczak

We define a logic of propositional formula schemata adding to the syntax of propositional logic indexed propositions and iterated connectives ranging over intervals parameterized by arithmetic variables. The satisfiability problem is shown…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Vincent Aravantinos , Ricardo Caferra , Nicolas Peltier

We are lifting classical problems from single instances to regular sets of instances. The task of finding a positive instance of the combinatorial problem $P$ in a potentially infinite given regular set is equivalent to the so called…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Petra Wolf

In a constructive setting, no concrete formulation of ordinal numbers can simultaneously have all the properties one might be interested in; for example, being able to calculate limits of sequences is constructively incompatible with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Nicolai Kraus , Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg , Chuangjie Xu

The first-order theory of addition over the natural numbers, known as Presburger arithmetic, is decidable in double exponential time. Adding an uninterpreted unary predicate to the language leads to an undecidable theory. We sharpen the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Matthias Horbach , Marco Voigt , Christoph Weidenbach

The paper introduces the notion of the size of countable sets that preserves the Part-Whole Principle and generalizes the notion of the cardinality of finite sets. The sizes of natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and all their…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Kateřina Trlifajová

An open problem posed by the first author is the complexity to decide whether a sequence of nonnegative integer numbers can be the final score of a football tournament. In this paper we propose polynomial time approximate and exponential…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-07-27 A. Iványi , J. E. Schoenfield

Infinite chess is chess played on an infinite edgeless chessboard. The familiar chess pieces move about according to their usual chess rules, and each player strives to place the opposing king into checkmate. The mate-in-n problem of…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-05-17 Dan Brumleve , Joel David Hamkins , Philipp Schlicht

Computability theory is traditionally conceived as the theoretical basis of informatics. Nevertheless, numerous proposals transcend computability theory, in particular by emphasizing interaction of modules, or components, parts,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Peter Fettke , Wolfgang Reisig

Blackwell games are infinite games of imperfect information. The two players simultaneously make their moves, and are then informed of each other's moves. Payoff is determined by a Borel measurable function $f$ on the set of possible…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Marco R. Vervoort

Hybrid games are games played on a finite graph endowed with real variables which may model behaviors of discrete controllers of continuous systems. The synthesis problem for hybrid games is decidable for classical objectives (like LTL…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Catalin Dima , Mariem Hammami , Youssouf Oualhadj , Régine Laleau