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In 2001, J.-M. Le Bars disproved the zero-one law (that says that every sentence from a certain logic is either true asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.), or false a.a.s.) for existential monadic second order sentences (EMSO) about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Svetlana Popova , Maksim Zhukovskii

In this paper, we disprove EMSO(FO$^2$) convergence law for the binomial random graph $G(n,p)$ for any constant probability $p$. More specifically, we prove that there exists an existential monadic second order sentence with 2 first order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Margarita Akhmejanova , Maksim Zhukovskii

Let $\mathcal G$ be an addable, minor-closed class of graphs. We prove that the zero-one law holds in monadic second-order logic (MSO) for the random graph drawn uniformly at random from all {\em connected} graphs in $\mathcal G$ on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Peter Heinig , Tobias Muller , Marc Noy , Anusch Taraz

We study asymptotical probabilities of first order and monadic second order properties of Erdos-Renyi random graph G(n,n^{-a}). The random graph obeys FO (MSO) zero-one k-law if for any first order (monadic second order) formulae it is true…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-06 L. B. Ostrovsky , M. E. Zhukovskii

We establish zero-one laws and convergence laws for monadic second-order logic (MSO) (and, a fortiori, first-order logic) on a number of interesting graph classes. In particular, we show that MSO obeys a zero-one law on the class of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Anuj Dawar , Eryk Kopczyński

In this paper, we study zero-one laws for the Erd\H{o}s--R\'{e}nyi random graph model $G(n,p)$ in the case when $p = n^{-\alpha}$ for $\alpha>0$. For a given class $\mathcal{K}$ of logical sentences about graphs and a given function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-18 Andrey Kupavskii , Maksim Zhukovskii

For many standard models of random structure, first-order logic sentences exhibit a convergence phenomenon on random inputs. The most well-known example is for random graphs with constant edge probability, where the probabilities of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sam Adam-Day , Michael Benedikt , Alberto Larrauri

We study logical limit laws for uniform attachment random graphs. In this random graph model, vertices and edges are introduced recursively: at time $n+1$, the vertex $n+1$ is introduced together with $m$ edges joining the new vertex with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Yury Malyshkin , Maksim Zhukovskii

We consider first order expressible properties of random perfect graphs. That is, we pick a graph $G_n$ uniformly at random from all (labelled) perfect graphs on $n$ vertices and consider the probability that it satisfies some graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Tobias Müller , Marc Noy

Since the paper of Kleinberg and Kleinberg, SODA'05, where it was proven that the preferential attachment random graph with degeneracy at least 3 does not obey the first order 0-1 law, no general methods were developed to study logical…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Yury Malyshkin , Maksim Zhukovskii

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

In this paper, we prove that for every positive $\varepsilon$, there exists an $\alpha\in(1/(k-1),1/(k-1)+\varepsilon)$ such that the binomial random graph $G(n,n^{-\alpha})$ does not obey 0-1 law w.r.t. first order sentences with k…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-12 A. S. Razafimahatratra , M. Zhukovskii

For any fixed integer $R \geq 2$ we characterise the typical structure of undirected graphs with vertices $1, ..., n$ and maximum degree $R$, as $n$ tends to infinity. The information is used to prove that such graphs satisfy a labelled…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-18 Vera Koponen

Let us draw a graph R on {0,1,...,n-1} by having an edge {i,j} with probability p_(|i-j|), where sum_i p_i is finite and let M_n=(n,<,R). For a first order sentence psi let a^n_psi be the probability of ``M_n satisfies psi''. We prove that…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Saharon Shelah

In the paper, we prove that existential monadic second order convergence law fails for the binomial random graph $G(n,n^{-\alpha})$ for every $\alpha\in(0,1)$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Alena Egorova , Maksim Zhukovskii

In this paper the limit probabilities of first-order properties are studied. The random graph $G(n,p)$ {\it obeys Zero-One $k$-Law} if for each first-order property with quantifier depth not greater than $k$ its probability tends to 0 or…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-02-02 Aleksandr Matushkin

Let G_n be the random graph on [n]= {1, ...,n} with the possible edge {i,j} having probability being p_{|i-j|}= 1/|i-j|^alpha, alpha in (0,1) irrational. We prove that the zero one law (for first order logic) holds. The paper is continued…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Saharon Shelah

Monadic stability generalizes many tameness notions from structural graph theory such as planarity, bounded degree, bounded tree-width, and nowhere density. The sparsification conjecture predicts that the (possibly dense) monadically stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Nikolas Mählmann , Sebastian Siebertz

We study on which classes of graphs first-order logic (FO) and monadic second-order logic (MSO) have the same expressive power. We show that for all classes C of graphs that are closed under taking subgraphs, FO and MSO have the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Michael Elberfeld , Martin Grohe , Till Tantau

We find a logic really stronger than first order for the random graph with edge probability $\frac 12$ but satisfies the 0-1 law. This means that on the one hand it satisfies the 0-1 law, e.g. for the random graph ${\mathcal G}_{n,1/2}$ and…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Saharon Shelah
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