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This paper provides two extensions of first order logic by `$\omega$-rules'. In each case we characterize the countable structures whose theory in the logic is categorical (has a unique model). In the one-sorted inferential $\omega$-logic,…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-28 John T. Baldwin , Constantin C. Brîncuş

I investigate the relationships between three hierarchies of reflection principles for a forcing class $\Gamma$: the hierarchy of bounded forcing axioms, of $\Sigma^1_1$-absoluteness and of Aronszajn tree preservation principles. The latter…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Gunter Fuchs

Let $\omega^*(n) = \{d|n: d=p-1, \mbox{$p$ is a prime}\}$. We show that, for each integer $k\geq2$, $$ \sum_{n\leq x}\omega^*(n)^k \asymp x(\log x)^{2^k-k-1}, $$ where the implied constant may depend on $k$ only. This confirms a recent…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Mikhail R. Gabdullin

In [10], the authors formalized the standard transformation procedure for prenex normalization of first-order formulas and showed that the classes $\mathrm{E}_k$ and $\mathrm{U}_k$ introduced in Akama et al. [1] are exactly the classes…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Makoto Fujiwara , Taishi Kurahashi

We show the equivalence between the existence of winning strategies for $G_{\delta \sigma}$ (also called $\Sigma^{0}_{3}$) games in Cantor or Baire space, and the existence of functions generalized-recursive in a higher type-2 functional.…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-10-01 P. D. Welch

Generalized Higman's Theorem is the direct counterpart of Higman's Theorem that asserts the closure of the class of \emph{better} quasi-orders, instead of the class of \emph{well} quasi-orders, under the construction $P\mapsto P^{<\omega}$…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Fedor Pakhomov , Giovanni Soldà

Checking whether two pushdown automata with restricted silent actions are weakly bisimilar was shown decidable by S\'enizergues (1998, 2005). We provide the first known complexity upper bound for this famous problem, in the equivalent…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Petr Jančar , Sylvain Schmitz

Notions of k-asimulation and asimulation are introduced as asymmetric counterparts to k-bisimulation and bisimulation, respectively. It is proved that a first-order formula is equivalent to a standard translation of an intuitionistic…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Grigory K. Olkhovikov

Let $k$ and $n$ be natural numbers. Let $\omega_k(n)$ denote the number of distinct prime factors of $n$ with multiplicity $k$ as studied by Elma and the third author. We obtain asymptotic estimates for the first and the second moments of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-18 Sourabhashis Das , Wentang Kuo , Yu-Ru Liu

In the lecture notes it is shown that an ordinal $\psi_{\Omega}(\varepsilon_{\mathbb{S}^{+}+1})$ is an upper bound for the proof-theoretic ordinal of a set theory ${\sf KP}\omega+(M\prec_{\Sigma_{1}}V)$. In this note we show that ${\sf…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Toshiyasu Arai

We give an elementary proof of a monotone selection principle which allows to pass from increasing nets to increasing sequences in the Hermitian part of a $\sigma$-finite von Neumann algebra. This is to be seen as a ``monotone version'' of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marco Thill

We prove a variation of Easton's lemma for strongly proper forcings, and use it to prove that, unlike the stronger principle $\textsf{IGMP}$, $\textsf{GMP}$ together with $2^\omega \le \omega_2$ is consistent with the existence of an…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Sean Cox , John Krueger

The main purpose of this survey is to gather results on the boundedness of the Bergman projection. First, we shall go over some equivalent norms on weighted Bergman spaces $A^p_\omega$ which are useful in the study of this question. In…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-01-19 José Ángel Peláez , Jouni Rättyä

We show that the existence of a first-order formula separating two monadic second order formulas over countable ordinal words is decidable. This extends the work of Henckell and Almeida on finite words, and of Place and Zeitoun on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Thomas Colcombet , Sam van Gool , Rémi Morvan

In this paper we consider a fragment of the first-order theory of the real numbers that includes systems of equations of continuous functions in bounded domains, and for which all functions are computable in the sense that it is possible to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Peter Franek , Stefan Ratschan , Piotr Zgliczynski

The first-order theory of a string automatic structure is known to be decidable, but there are examples of string automatic structures with nonelementary first-order theories. We prove that the first-order theory of a string automatic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-10-29 Dietrich Kuske , Markus Lohrey

In this note let us give two remarks on proof-theory of PA. First a derivability relation is introduced to bound witnesses for provable $\Sigma_{1}$-formulas in PA. Second Paris-Harrington's proof for their independence result is…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Toshiyasu Arai

We prove an iteration theorem which guarantees for a wide class of nice iterations of $\omega_1$-preserving forcings that $\omega_1$ is not collapse, at the price of needing large cardinals to burn as fuel. More precisely, we show that a…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Andreas Lietz

We systematically study several versions of the disjunction and the existence properties in modal arithmetic. First, we newly introduce three classes $\mathrm{B}$, $\Delta(\mathrm{B})$, and $\Sigma(\mathrm{B})$ of formulas of modal…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Taishi Kurahashi , Motoki Okuda

We stratify intuitionistic first-order logic over $(\forall,\to)$ into fragments determined by the alternation of positive and negative occurrences of quantifiers (Mints hierarchy). We study the decidability and complexity of these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Aleksy Schubert , Paweł Urzyczyn , Konrad Zdanowski