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A celebrated 1969 theorem of Michael Rabin is that the MSO theory of the real order where the monadic quantifier is allowed only to range over the sets of rational numbers, is decidable. In 1975 Saharon Shelah proved that if the monadic…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Mirna Džamonja

We show that double cosets of the infinite symmetric group with respect to some special subgroups admit natural structures of semigroups. We interpret elements of such semigroups in combinatorial terms (chips, colored graphs,…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Yury A. Neretin

We introduce a restricted second-order logic $\mathrm{SO}^{\mathit{plog}}$ for finite structures where second-order quantification ranges over relations of size at most poly-logarithmic in the size of the structure. We demonstrate the…

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Sets with atoms serve as an alternative to ZFC foundations for mathematics, where some infinite, though highly symmetric sets, behave in a finitistic way. Therefore, one can try to carry over analysis of the classical algorithms from finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Michał R. Przybyłek

Hierarchical transition systems provide a popular mathematical structure to represent state-based software applications in which different layers of abstraction are represented by inter-related state machines. The decomposition of high…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Alexandre Madeira , Manuel A. Martins , Luís S. Barbosa

We address questions of logic and expressibility in the context of random rooted trees. Infiniteness of a rooted tree is not expressible as a first order sentence, but is expressible as an existential monadic second order sentence (EMSO).…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Alexander E. Holroyd , Avi Levy , Moumanti Podder , Joel Spencer

We characterize the downsets of integer partitions (ordered by containment of Ferrers diagrams) and compositions (ordered by the generalized subword order) which have finite dimension in the sense of Dushnik and Miller. In the case of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-22 Michael Engen , Vincent Vatter

The paper is devoted to developing subdifferential theory for set-valued mappings taking values in ordered infinite-dimensional spaces. This study is motivated by applications to problems of vector and set optimization with various…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Boris S. Mordukhovich , Oanh Nguyen

After summarizing briefly some numerical results for four-dimensional supersymmetric SU(2) Yang-Mills quantum mechanics, we review a recent study of systems with an infinite number of colours. We study in detail a particular supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Wosiek

We study the finite satisfiability problem for the two-variable fragment of first-order logic extended with counting quantifiers (C2) and interpreted over linearly ordered structures. We show that the problem is undecidable in the case of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Witold Charatonik , Piotr Witkowski

We use the notion of collapse of generalized indiscernible sequences to classify various model theoretic dividing lines. In particular, we use collapse of n-multi-order indiscernibles to characterize op-dimension n; collapse of…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Vincent Guingona , Cameron Donnay Hill , Lynn Scow

This paper presents a novel possible worlds semantics, designed to elucidate the underpinnings of ultrafinitism. By constructing a careful modification of the well-known Kripke models for inuitionistic logic, we seek to extend our…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Mirco A. Mannucci

A classical (or quantum) superintegrable system on an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold is an integrable Hamiltonian system with potential that admits 2n-1 functionally independent constants of the motion that are polynomial in the momenta,…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-04-24 Willard Miller

Substructural logics are formal logical systems that omit familiar structural rules of classical and intuitionistic logic such as contraction, weakening, exchange (commutativity), and associativity. This leads to a resource-sensitive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Nikolaos Galatos , Vitor Greati , Revantha Ramanayake , Gavin St. John

Multidimensional combinatorial substitutions are rules that replace symbols by finite patterns of symbols in $\mathbb Z^d$. We focus on the case where the patterns are not necessarily rectangular, which requires a specific description of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-27 Timo Jolivet , Jarkko Kari

We examine the reductions of the order of certain third- and second-order nonlinear equations with arbitrary nonlinearity through their symmetries and some appropriate transformations. We use the folding transformation which enables one to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-04-02 K. M. Tamizhmani , K. Krishnakumar , P. G. L. Leach

Morphisms to finite semigroups can be used for recognizing omega-regular languages. The so-called strongly recognizing morphisms can be seen as a deterministic computation model which provides minimal objects (known as the syntactic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-10 Lukas Fleischer , Manfred Kufleitner

Over the past decade, physicists have developed deep but non-rigorous techniques for studying phase transitions in discrete structures. Recently, their ideas have been harnessed to obtain improved rigorous results on the phase transitions…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Dan Vilenchik

We introduce a second-order stochastic model to explore the variability in growth of biological shapes with applications to medical imaging. Our model is a perturbation with a random force of the Hamiltonian formulation of the geodesics.…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-23 François-Xavier Vialard

In this paper we define infinite-dimensional algebra and its representation, whose basis is naturally identified with semi-infinite configurations of the square ladder model. We also extrapolate the ideas for the cyclic 3-leg triangular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-14 Valerii Sopin