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In 1991 H\'ebrard introduced a factorization of words that turned out to be a powerful tool for the investigation of a word's scattered factors (also known as (scattered) subwords or subsequences). Based on this, first Karandikar and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-12 Pamela Fleischmann , Jonas Höfer , Annika Huch , Dirk Nowotka

This paper is concerned with minimal-length representatives of equivalence classes of words in F_2 under Aut F_2. We give a simple inequality characterizing words of minimal length in their equivalence class. We consider an operation that…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-02 Bobbe Cooper , Eric Rowland

We show that for any two distinct words $ s_1, s_2 $ over an arbitrary alphabets, there exists a deterministic finite automaton with $ O(\log^2 n) $ states that accepts $ s_1 $ and rejects $ s_2 $. This improves the previous upper bound of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Bogdan C. Dumitru

Large Language Models (LLMs) have benefited enormously from scaling, yet these gains are bounded by five fundamental limitations: (1) hallucination, (2) context compression, (3) reasoning degradation, (4) retrieval fragility, and (5)…

In this paper, we present a general framework for ranking sets of arguments in abstract argumentation based on their plausibility of acceptance. We present a generalisation of Dung's extension semantics as extension-ranking semantics, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Kenneth Skiba , Tjitze Rienstra , Matthias Thimm , Jesse Heyninck , Gabriele Kern-Isberner

The study of Description Logics have been historically mostly focused on features that can be translated to decidable fragments of first-order logic. In this paper, we leave this restriction behind and look for useful and decidable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Joshua Hirschbrunn , Yevgeny Kazakov

We study the expressive power of fragments of inclusion and independence logic defined by restricting the number k of universal quantifiers in formulas. Assuming the so-called strict semantics for these logics, we relate these fragments of…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Miika Hannula , Juha Kontinen

We introduce two families of transcendental numbers which we call finite factorial (FF) and partially finite factorial (PFF) numbers respectively, with the former one being subfamily of the latter one. These numbers arise naturally from…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Liangang Ma

We investigate the decidability and computational complexity of (deductive) conservative extensions in fragments of first-order logic (FO), with a focus on the two-variable fragment FO$^2$ and the guarded fragment GF. We prove that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Jean Christoph Jung , Carsten Lutz , Mauricio Martel , Thomas Schneider , Frank Wolter

Nested words are a structured model of execution paths in procedural programs, reflecting their call and return nesting structure. Finite nested words also capture the structure of parse trees and other tree-structured data, such as XML. We…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Rajeev Alur , Marcelo Arenas , Pablo Barcelo , Kousha Etessami , Neil Immerman , Leonid Libkin

We prove the undecidability of MSO on $\omega$-words extended with the second-order predicate $U_1(X)$ which says that the distance between consecutive positions in a set $X \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ is unbounded. This is achieved by showing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Laure Daviaud , Bruno Guillon , Vincent Penelle , A. V. Sreejith

Given an undirected graph representing similarities between a set of items and an additive measure evaluating the items, we treat the position of a special subset of items in an ordinal ranking through a collection of combinatorial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Samuel Boardman

We consider decision problems for relations over finite and infinite words defined by finite automata. We prove that the equivalence problem for binary deterministic rational relations over infinite words is undecidable in contrast to the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Christof Löding , Christopher Spinrath

We introduce a taxonomy for partially coherent optical fields spanning multiple degrees of freedom (DoFs) based on the rank of the associated coherence matrix (the number of non-zero eigenvalues). When DoFs comprise two spatial modes and…

For every $q\in \mathbb N$ let $\textrm{FO}_q$ denote the class of sentences of first-order logic FO of quantifier rank at most $q$. If a graph property can be defined in $\textrm{FO}_q$, then it can be decided in time $O(n^q)$. Thus,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Yijia Chen , Joerg Flum , Xuangui Huang

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

We define a new class of infinitary logics $\mathscr L^1_{\kappa,\alpha}$ generalizing Shelah's logic $\mathbb L^1_\kappa$ defined in \cite{MR2869022}. If $\kappa=\beth_\kappa$ and $\alpha <\kappa$ is infinite then our logic coincides with…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Jouko Vaananen , Boban Velickovic

Krebs et al. (2007) gave a characterization of the complexity class TC0 as the class of languages recognized by a certain class of typed monoids. The notion of typed monoid was introduced to extend methods of algebraic automata theory to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Anuj Dawar , Aidan T. Evans

Given a finite alphabet $\Sigma$ and a right-infinite word $w$ over the alphabet $\Sigma$, we construct a topological space ${\rm Rec}(w)$ consisting of all right-infinite recurrent words whose factors are all factors of $w$, where we work…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Jason Bell

Using quasimodular forms with respect to $\Gamma_0(4)$ we find exact relations between the M2-rank for partitions without repeated odd parts and three residual cranks. From these identities we are able to deduce various congruences mod 3…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-08-22 Chris Jennings-Shaffer