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We investigate systems of equations and the first-order theory of one-relator monoids. We describe a family $\mathcal{F}$ of one-relator monoids of the form $\langle A\mid w=1\rangle$ where for each monoid $M$ in $\mathcal{F}$, the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Albert Garreta , Robert D. Gray

A first-order theory has the Schroder-Bernstein property if any two of its models that are elementarily bi-embeddable are isomorphic. We prove that if a countable theory T has the Schroder-Bernstein property then it is classifiable (it is…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 John Goodrick

Continuous first-order logic is used to apply model-theoretic analysis to analytic structures (e.g. Hilbert spaces, Banach spaces, probability spaces, etc.). Classical computable model theory is used to examine the algorithmic structure of…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-06-04 Wesley Calvert

Monadic second order logic and linear temporal logic are two logical formalisms that can be used to describe classes of infinite words, i.e., first-order models based on the natural numbers with order, successor, and finitely many unary…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Silvio Ghilardi , Samuel J. van Gool

A theory is NIP (resp. stable) if and only if every formula with parameters in two single variables is NIP (resp. does not have the order property).

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Pierre Simon

In this paper, we develop an Isabelle/HOL library of order-theoretic fixed-point theorems. We keep our formalization as general as possible: we reprove several well-known results about complete orders, often with only antisymmetry or…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jérémy Dubut , Akihisa Yamada

We characterise the classes of tournaments with tractable first-order model checking. For every hereditary class of tournaments $\mathcal T$, first-order model checking is either fixed parameter tractable or $\textrm{AW}[*]$-hard. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Colin Geniet , Stéphan Thomassé

We give sufficient conditions for a predicate P in a complete theory T to be stably embedded: P with its induced 0-definable structure has "finite rank", P has NIP in T and P is 1-stably embedded. This generalizes recent work by Hasson and…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Anand Pillay

We study stable like behaviour in first order theories without the independence property. We introduce generically stable measures, give characterizatiions, and show their ubiquity. We also introduce generic compact domination. We also…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-02-26 Ehud Hrushovski , Anand Pillay , Pierre Simon

In this article, we study parameterized complexity theory from the perspective of logic, or more specifically, descriptive complexity theory. We propose to consider parameterized model-checking problems for various fragments of first-order…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joerg Flum , Martin Grohe

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

The classifying topos of a geometric theory is a topos such that geometric morphisms into it correspond to models of that theory. We study classifying toposes for different infinitary logics: first-order, sub-first-order (i.e. geometric…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Mark Kamsma

It is known that for subgraph-closed graph classes the first-order model checking problem is fixed-parameter tractable if and only if the class is nowhere dense [Grohe, Kreutzer, Siebertz, STOC 2014]. However, the dependency on the formula…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jakub Gajarský , Michał Pilipczuk , Marek Sokołowski , Giannos Stamoulis , Szymon Toruńczyk

We show that the model-checking problem for successor-invariant first-order logic is fixed-parameter tractable on graphs with excluded topological subgraphs when parameterised by both the size of the input formula and the size of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Kord Eickmeyer , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Permutations can be viewed as pairs of linear orders, or more formally as models over a signature consisting of two binary relation symbols. This approach was adopted by Albert, Bouvel and F\'eray, who studied the expressibility of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-05 Vít Jelínek , Michal Opler

The theme of the first two sections, is to prepare the framework of how from a "complicated" family of index models I in K_1 we build many and/or complicated structures in a class K_2. The index models are characteristically linear orders,…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-09 Saharon Shelah

We give an almost entirely model-theoretic account of both Ramsey classes of finite structures and of generalized indiscernibles as studied in special cases in (for example) [7], [9]. We understand "theories of indiscernibles" to be special…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-10-30 Cameron Donnay Hill

It is proved that the first-order theory of the structure (N,mod) is undecidable. Here mod denotes the operation of computing the remainder for any division between positive integers; i.e. x mod y is the remainder obtained by the division x…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Mihai Prunescu

Given a graph $G$ whose edges are perfectly reliable and whose nodes each operate independently with probability $p\in[0,1],$ the node reliability of $G$ is the probability that at least one node is operational and that the operational…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Jason Brown , Lucas Mol