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It is well known that in Zermelo-Fraenkel (ZF) set theory any finite set is decidable. In this paper we discuss an extension of ZF where this result is no longer valid. Such an extension is quasi-set theory and it has its origin on problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adonai S. Sant'Anna

We investigate the expressive power of quantifier alternation hierarchy of first-order logic over words. This hierarchy includes the classes ${\Sigma}_i$ (sentences having at most $i$ blocks of quantifiers starting with an $\exists$) and…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Théo Pierron , Thomas Place , Marc Zeitoun

We show that the statement ``In every separable pseudometric space there is a maximal non-strictly \delta-separated set.'' implies the axiom of choice for countable families of sets. This gives answers to a question of Dybowski and…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Michał Dybowski , Przemyslaw Górka , Paul Howard

We consider fragments of first-order logic and as models we allow finite and infinite words simultaneously. The only binary relations apart from equality are order comparison < and the successor predicate +1. We give characterizations of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jakub Kallas , Manfred Kufleitner , Alexander Lauser

The theory of finite term algebras provides a natural framework to describe the semantics of functional languages. The ability to efficiently reason about term algebras is essential to automate program analysis and verification for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-10 Laura Kovacs , Simon Robillard , Andrei Voronkov

Recently, a plethora of works have proposed inference-time algorithms (e.g. best-of-n), which incorporate verifiers to assist the generation process. Their quality-efficiency trade-offs have been empirically benchmarked on a variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Edoardo Botta , Yuchen Li , Aashay Mehta , Jordan T. Ash , Cyril Zhang , Andrej Risteski

A forcing extension may create new isomorphisms between two models of a first order theory. Certain model theoretic constraints on the theory and other constraints on the forcing can prevent this pathology. A countable first order theory is…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-06 John T. Baldwin , Michael C. Laskowski , Saharon Shelah

To interpret uncertainty estimates from differentiable probabilistic models, recent work has proposed generating Counterfactual Latent Uncertainty Explanations (CLUEs). However, for a single input, such approaches could output a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Dan Ley , Umang Bhatt , Adrian Weller

We look into the problems of comparing nondeterministic discounted-sum automata on finite and infinite words. That is, the problems of checking for automata $A$ and $B$ whether or not it holds that for all words $w$, $A(w)=B(w), A(w) \leq…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Udi Boker , Guy Hefetz

A language $L$ is said to be dense if every word in the universe is an infix of some word in $L$. This notion has been generalized from the infix operation to arbitrary word operations $\varrho$ in place of the infix operation…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Joey Eremondi , Oscar H. Ibarra , Ian McQuillan

We investigate the computability of algebraic closure and definable closure with respect to a collection of formulas. We show that for a computable collection of formulas of quantifier rank at most $n$, in any given computable structure,…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Nathanael Ackerman , Cameron Freer , Rehana Patel

Counterfactual explanations (CEs) offer a human-understandable way to explain decisions by identifying specific changes to the input parameters of a base or present model that would lead to a desired change in the outcome. For optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Felix Engelhardt , Jannis Kurtz , Ş. İlker Birbil , Ted Ralphs

We introduce a model-complete theory which completely axiomatizes the structure $Z_{\alpha}=(Z, +, 0, 1, f)$ where $f : x \to \lfloor{\alpha} x \rfloor $ is a unary function with $\alpha$ a fixed transcendental number. When $\alpha$ is…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Mohsen Khani , Ali N. Valizadeh , Afshin Zarei

The integral of a function $f$ defined on a symmetric space $M \simeq G/K$ may be expressed in the form of a determinant (or Pfaffian), when $f$ is $K$-invariant and, in a certain sense, a tensor power of a positive function of a single…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Salem Said , Cyrus Mostajeran

The notion of non-deterministic logical matrix (where connectives are interpreted as multi-functions) preserves many good properties of traditional semantics based on logical matrices (where connectives are interpreted as functions) whilst…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Pedro Filipe , Carlos Caleiro , Sérgio Marcelino

We use forcing over admissible sets to show that, for every ordinal $\alpha$ in a club $C\subset\omega_1$, there are copies of $\alpha$ such that the isomorphism between them is not computable in the join of the complete $\Pi^1_1$ set…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Noah Schweber

Higher-order unification has been shown to be undecidable. Miller discovered the pattern fragment and subsequently showed that higher-order pattern unification is decidable and has most general unifiers. We extend the algorithm to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Zhibo Chen , Frank Pfenning

We consider linear single-path loops of the form \[ \textbf{while} \quad \varphi \quad \textbf{do} \quad \vec{x} \gets A \vec{x} + \vec{b} \quad \textbf{end} \] where $\vec{x}$ is a vector of variables, the loop guard $\varphi$ is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Florian Frohn , Jürgen Giesl , Peter Giesl , Nils Lommen

For two given $\omega$-terms $\alpha$ and $\beta$, the word problem for $\omega$-terms over a variety $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{V}}$ asks whether $\alpha=\beta$ in all monoids in $\boldsymbol{\mathrm{V}}$. We show that the word problem for…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Manfred Kufleitner , Jan Philipp Wächter

Let $\Omega$ be a smooth bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^{N}$ and let $m$ be a possibly discontinuous and unbounded function that changes sign in $\Omega$. Let $f:\left[ 0,\infty\right) \rightarrow\left[ 0,\infty\right) $ be a continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-09 Tomas Godoy , Uriel Kaufmann