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A brief introduction to the theory of ordered sets and lattice theory is given. To illustrate proof techniques in the theory of ordered sets, a generalization of a conjecture of Daykin and Daykin, concerning the structure of posets that can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Jonathan David Farley

We prove, for stably computably enumerable formal systems, direct analogues of the first and second incompleteness theorems of G\"odel. A typical stably computably enumerable set is the set of Diophantine equations with no integer…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Yasha Savelyev

Using the theory of Kolmogorov complexity the notion of facticity {\phi}(x) of a string is defined as the amount of self-descriptive information it contains. It is proved that (under reasonable assumptions: the existence of an empty machine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Pieter Adriaans

We prove a Kolmogorov complexity variant of the birthday paradox. Sufficiently sized random subsets of strings are guaranteed to have two members x and y with low K(x/y). To prove this, we first show that the minimum conditional Kolmogorov…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Samuel Epstein

One often wishes for the ability to formally analyze large-scale systems---typically, however, one can either formally analyze a rather small system or informally analyze a large-scale system. This work tries to further close this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Matthias Althoff

With respect to earlier investigations, the theory of multi-component, concentric, copolar, axisymmetric, rigidly rotating polytropes is improved and extended, including subsystems with nonzero density on the boundary and subsystems with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-21 R. Caimmi

This paper continues the author's previous study \cite{Kura20}, showing that several weak principles inspired by non-normal modal logic suffice to derive various refined forms of the second incompleteness theorem. Among the main results of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Taishi Kurahashi

A dependent theory is a (first order complete theory) T which does not have the independence property. A main result here is: if we expand a model of T by the traces on it of sets definable in a bigger model then we preserve its being…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-02-20 Saharon Shelah

In this paper, we give a new completion for quasi-uniform spaces which generalizes the completion theories of Doitchinov [8] and Stoltenberg [20]. The presented completion theory is very well-behaved and extends the completion theory of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Athanasios Andrikopoulos , Ioannis Gounaridis

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate, by means of concepts and theorems drawn from mathematical logic, the conditions under which the existence of a multiverse is a logical necessity in mathematical physics, and the implications of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Gordon McCabe

We reconsider some classical natural semantics of integers (namely iterators of functions, cardinals of sets, index of equivalence relations), in the perspective of Kolmogorov complexity. To each such semantics one can attach a simple…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff

We provide a rigorous first-principle derivation of the non-additive Tsallis' entropy by employing the Chaitin-Kolmogorov algorithmic information theory. By applying non-local restrictive rules on the string formation (grammar), we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-05 Airton Deppman

For a finite word $w$ we define and study the Kolmogorov structure function $h_w$ for nondeterministic automatic complexity. We prove upper bounds on $h_w$ that appear to be quite sharp, based on numerical evidence.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen

We prove that if $T$ is a complete theory with weak elimination of imaginaries, then there is an explicit bijection between strict independence relations for $T$ and strict independence relations for $T^{\text{eq}}$. We use this observation…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Gabriel Conant

We introduce the Insertion Chain Complex, a higher-dimensional extension of insertion graphs, as a new framework for analyzing finite sets of words. We study its topological and combinatorial properties, in particular its homology groups,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Nataša Jonoska , Francisco Martinez-Figueroa , Masahico Saito

We classify the complexity of the satisfiability problem for extensions of CTL and UB. The extensions we consider are Boolean combinations of path formulas, fairness properties, past modalities, and forgettable past. Our main result shows…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-06-16 Volker Weber

The (prefix-free) Kolmogorov complexity of a finite binary string is the length of the shortest description of the string. This gives rise to some `standard' lowness notions for reals: A is K-trivial if its initial segments have the lowest…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-10-15 Ian Herbert

An infinite structure has the finite length property (over a given field) if, for each of its finite powers, chains of equivariant subspaces in the corresponding free vector space are bounded in length. Prior work showed that the countable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Jingjie Yang , Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Bartek Klin

In recent years there has been considerable interest in theories over string equations, length function, and string-number conversion predicate within the formal verification, software engineering, and security communities. SMT solvers for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Vijay Ganesh , Murphy Berzish

Generalised Probabilistic Theories (GPTs) provide a unifying framework encompassing classical theories, quantum theories, as well as hypothetical alternatives. We investigate the problem of extending a system with a finite set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Serge Massar