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Inductive and coinductive types are commonly construed as ontological (Church-style) types, denoting canonical data-sets such as natural numbers, lists, and streams. For various purposes, notably the study of programs in the context of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Daniel M Leivant

We present initial limit Datalog, a new extensible class of constrained Horn clauses for which the satisfiability problem is decidable. The class may be viewed as a generalisation to higher-order logic (with a simple restriction on types)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Toby Cathcart Burn , Luke Ong , Steven Ramsay , Dominik Wagner

The category of models of any theory $T$ in any first-order language $L$ has the surprising property that any small category that is elementarily equivalent with it, already embeds in it. The proof uses an abstract argument via ultrapowers,…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Hans Schoutens

We develop an algebraic notion of recognizability for languages of words indexed by countable linear orderings. We prove that this notion is effectively equivalent to definability in monadic second-order (MSO) logic. We also provide three…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Olivier Carton , Thomas Colcombet , Gabriele Puppis

We ask, when is a property of a model a logical property? According to the so-called Tarski-Sher criterion this is the case when the property is preserved by isomorphisms. We relate this to model-theoretic characteristics of abstract logics…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Juliette Kennedy , Jouko Väänänen

Differentiable logics are a family of quantitative logics originated in the machine learning literature. Because of their origin, differentiable logics often come equipped with analytic properties that guarantee that they are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Reynald Affeldt , Alessandro Bruni , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Natalia Ślusarz , Kathrin Stark

We discuss the structure of positive definite kernels in terms of operator models. In particular, we introduce two models, one of Hessenberg type and another one that we call near triangular. These models produce parametrizations of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Constantinescu , Nermine El-Sissi

Throughout, $T$ denotes a complete first-order theory in a countable language $L$ that has infinite models and $I(\aleph_0,T)$ denotes the number of countable models of $T$, up to an isomorphism. To determine $I(\aleph_0,T)$, it suffices to…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Anand Pillay , Predrag Tanović

Assuming the obvious definitions (see paper) we show the a decidable model that is effectively prime is also effectively atomic. This implies that two effectively prime (decidable) models are computably isomorphic. This is in contrast to…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Peter Cholak , Charlie McCoy

This paper seeks to apply categorical logic to the design of artificial intelligent agents that reason symbolically about objects more richly structured than sets. Using Johnstone's sequent calculus of terms- and formulae-in-context, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ralph Wojtowicz

This work introduces a canonical structure for a broad class of unconstrained first-order algorithms that admit a Lur'e representation, including systems with relative degree greater than one, e.g., systems with delayed gradient feedback.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Mengmou Li , Yu Zhou , Xun Shen , Masaaki Nagahara

Following the types-as-sets paradigm, we present a mechanized embedding of dependent function types with a hierarchy of universes into schematic first-order logic with equality, with axiom schemas of Tarski-Grothendieck set theory. We carry…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yunsong Yang , Simon Guilloud , Viktor Kunčak

In this paper, we show that a partitioned formula \phi is dependent if and only if \phi has uniform definability of types over finite partial order indiscernibles. This generalizes our result from a previous paper [1]. We show this by…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Vincent Guingona

Conceptual models as representations of real-world systems are based on diverse techniques in various disciplines but lack a framework that provides multidisciplinary ontological understanding of real-world phenomena. Concurrently, systems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

This paper investigates some issues arising in categorical models of reversible logic and computation. Our claim is that the structural (coherence) isomorphisms of these categorical models, although generally overlooked, have decidedly…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Peter Hines

Let $p$ be a strong type of an algebraically closed tuple over $B=\acl^{\eq}(B)$ in any theory $T$. Depending on a ternary relation $\indo^*$ satisfying some basic axioms (there is at least one such, namely the trivial independence in $T$),…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Jan Dobrowolski , Byunghan Kim , Junguk Lee

We construct a 2-equivalence $\mathfrak{CohTheory}^\text{op} \simeq \mathfrak{TypeSpaceFunc}$. Here $\mathfrak{CohTheory}$ is the 2-category of positive theories and $\mathfrak{TypeSpaceFunc}$ is the 2-category of type space functors. We…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Mark Kamsma

The Tarskian classical relevant logic TR arises from Tarski's work on the foundations of the calculus of relations and on first-order logic restricted to finitely many variables, presented by Tarski and Givant their book, A Formalization of…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Roger D. Maddux

Algebraic theories with dependency between sorts form the structural core of Martin-L\"of type theory and similar systems. Their denotational semantics are typically studied using categorical techniques; many different categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Paige Randall North

We introduce the notions of definable amenability and extreme definable amenability for groups in continuous structures and conduct an extensive analysis of them, drawing parallels with the classical first-order case. We characterize both…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Juan Felipe Carmona , Alf Onshuus