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In recent work, Kobayashi observed that the acceptance by an alternating tree automaton A of an infinite tree T generated by a higher-order recursion scheme G may be formulated as the typability of the recursion scheme G in an appropriate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Charles Grellois , Paul-André Melliès

It has recently been shown that infinite matroids can be axiomatized in a way that is very similar to finite matroids and permits duality. This was previously thought impossible, since finitary infinite matroids must have non-finitary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-12 Henning Bruhn , Reinhard Diestel

We give a simple algorithm that determines whether a given post-critically finite topological polynomial is Thurston equivalent to a polynomial. If it is, the algorithm produces the Hubbard tree; otherwise, the algorithm produces the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-25 James Belk , Justin Lanier , Dan Margalit , Rebecca R. Winarski

Tree sets are abstract structures that can be used to model various tree-shaped objects in combinatorics. Finite tree sets can be represented by finite graph-theoretical trees. We extend this representation theory to infinite tree sets.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 J. Pascal Gollin , Jay Lilian Kneip

We provide decidability and undecidability results on the model-checking problem for infinite tree structures. These tree structures are built from sequences of elements of infinite relational structures. More precisely, we deal with the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Alex Spelten , Wolfgang Thomas , Sarah Winter

We prove that if nonlinear complex polynomials of the same degree have orbits with infinite intersection, then the polynomials have a common iterate. We also prove a special case of a conjectured dynamical analogue of the Mordell-Lang…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Dragos Ghioca , Thomas J. Tucker , Michael E. Zieve

We show that any infinite matroid can be reconstructed from the torsos of a tree-decomposition over its 2-separations, together with local information at the ends of the tree. We show that if the matroid is tame then this local information…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-15 Nathan Bowler , Johannes Carmesin , Luke Postle

We prove that if $ M $ and $ N $ are finitary matroids on a common countable edge set $ E $ then they admit a common independent set $I $ such that there is a bipartition $ E=E_{M}\cup E_{N} $ for which $ I\cap E_M $ spans $ E_M $ in $ M $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Attila Joó

Every bi-uniform matroid is representable over all sufficiently large fields. But it is not known exactly over which finite fields they are representable, and the existence of efficient methods to find a representation for every given…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Simeon Ball , Carles Padró , Zsuzsa Weiner , Chaoping Xing

Thin sums matroids were introduced to extend the notion of representability to non-finitary matroids. We give a new criterion for testing when the thin sums construction gives a matroid. We show that thin sums matroids over thin families…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-30 Hadi Afzali , Nathan Bowler

Transfinite set theory including the axiom of choice supplies the following basic theorems: (1) Mappings between infinite sets can always be completed, such that at least one of the sets is exhausted. (2) The real numbers can be well…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Mueckenheim

The well known Andrews-Curtis Conjecture [2] is still open. In this paper, we establish its finite version by describing precisely the connected components of the Andrews-Curtis graphs of finite groups. This finite version has independent…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-03-08 Alexandre V. Borovik , Alexander Lubotzky , Alexei G. Myasnikov

Based on decision trees, many fields have arguably made tremendous progress in recent years. In simple words, decision trees use the strategy of "divide-and-conquer" to divide the complex problem on the dependency between input features and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Jinxiong Zhang

We present infinite extensive strategy profiles with perfect information and we show that replacing finite by infinite changes the notions and the reasoning tools. The presentation uses a formalism recently developed by logicians and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Pierre Lescanne

Tree sets are posets with additional structure that generalize tree-like objects in graphs, matroids, or other combinatorial structures. They are a special class of abstract separation systems. We study infinite tree sets and how they…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Jay Lilian Kneip

Oriented matroids can serve as a tool of modeling of collective decision-making processes in contradictory problems of pattern recognition. We present a generalization of the committee techniques of pattern recognition to oriented matroids.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-07-12 Andrey O. Matveev

We study situations where a group of voters need to take a collective decision over a number of public issues, with the goal of getting a result that reflects the voters' opinions in a proportional manner. Our focus is on interconnected…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Julian Chingoma , Umberto Grandi , Arianna Novaro

The theory of Hubbard trees provides an effective classification of non-linear post-critically finite polynomial maps from \C to itself. This note will extend this classification to the case of maps from a finite union of copies of \C to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Alfredo Poirier

We show that if a graph admits a packing and a covering both consisting of $\lambda$ many spanning trees, where $\lambda$ is some infinite cardinal, then the graph also admits a decomposition into $\lambda$ many spanning trees. For finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Joshua Erde , Pascal Gollin , Atilla Joó , Paul Knappe , Max Pitz

The notion of thin sums matroids was invented to extend the notion of representability to non-finitary matroids. A matroid is tame if every circuit-cocircuit intersection is finite. We prove that a tame matroid is a thin sums matroid over a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Nathan Bowler , Johannes Carmesin