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In this article we will discuss a few aspects of the spacetime description of matter and fields. In Section:1 we will discuss the completeness of real numbers in the context of an alternate definition of the straight line as a geometric…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Kaushik Ghosh

Within the framework of computable infinitary continuous logic, we develop a system of hyperarithmetic numerals. These numerals are infinitary sentences in a metric language $L$ that have the same truth value in every interpretation of $L$.…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-11-03 Caleb M. H. Camrud , Timothy H. McNicholl

The occurrence and the distribution of patterns of trees associated to natural numbers are investigated. Bounds from above and below are proven for certain natural quantities.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Roberto Conti , Pierluigi Contucci , Vitalii Iudelevich

Real-valued logics underlie an increasing number of neuro-symbolic approaches, though typically their logical inference capabilities are characterized only qualitatively. We provide foundations for establishing the correctness and power of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Ronald Fagin , Ryan Riegel , Alexander Gray

We define a class of rational numbers including, as a particular case, the classical harmonic numbers. For one particular instance we apply it to the expansion into powers series of a special function, and also detail its relashionship with…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-12-14 Juan Pla

Neural rationale models are popular for interpretable predictions of NLP tasks. In these, a selector extracts segments of the input text, called rationales, and passes these segments to a classifier for prediction. Since the rationale is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Yiming Zheng , Serena Booth , Julie Shah , Yilun Zhou

This paper presents a new system of logic, LF, that is intended to be used as the foundation of the formalization of science. That is, deductive validity according to LF is to be used as the criterion for assessing what follows from the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Zachary Goodsell , Juhani Yli-Vakkuri

We define a notion of an arithmetic set in an arbitrary countable group and study properties of these sets in the cases of Abelian groups and non-abelian free groups.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-02 Azer Akhmedov , Damiano Fulghesu

This paper introduces a framework for representing information about entities that do not exist or may never exist, such as those involving fictional entities, blueprints, simulations, and future scenarios. Traditional approaches that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 John Beverley , Jim Logan , Barry Smith

We present axioms for the real numbers by omitting the field axioms and then derive the field properties of the real numbers. We prove all our theorems constructively.

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Jean S. Joseph

Algebraic characterizations of the computational aspects of functions defined over the real numbers provide very effective tool to understand what computability and complexity over the reals, and generally over continuous spaces, mean. This…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Olivier Bournez , Walid Gomaa , Emmanuel Hainry

Formal explainability guarantees the rigor of computed explanations, and so it is paramount in domains where rigor is critical, including those deemed high-risk. Unfortunately, since its inception formal explainability has been hampered by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xuanxiang Huang , Joao Marques-Silva

AI-driven outcomes can be challenging for end-users to understand. Explanations can address two key questions: "Why this outcome?" (factual) and "Why not another?" (counterfactual). While substantial efforts have been made to formalize…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Suryani Lim , Henri Prade , Gilles Richard

Given a single (differential-algebraic) input-output equation, we present a method for finding different representations of the associated system in the form of rational realizations; these are dynamical systems with rational right-hand…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Sebastian Falkensteiner , Dmitrii Pavlov , Rafael Sendra

Every countable language which conforms to classical logic is shown to have an extension which conforms to classical logic, and has a definitional theory of truth. That extension has a semantical theory of truth, if every sentence of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Seppo Heikkilä

Fractional calculus is a generalization of classical theories of integration and differentiation to arbitrary order (i.e., real or complex numbers). In the last two decades, this new mathematical modeling approach has been widely used to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-10 Umair Siddique , Osman Hasan , Sofiène Tahar

We introduce the Limiter, a universal extension of the real numbers and of the limit functional that assigns a canonical limit in an enlarged space to every real sequence. Motivated by generalized summation methods such as Borel summation…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Steven Lapp , Marina Tvalavadze

We propose a novel definition of Fourier transform, with the property that the transform of a real function is again a real function (without doubling the number of real components). We prove the inversion theorem for the novel definition,…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Fulvio Sbisà

The sequent calculus is a formalism for proving validity of statements formulated in First-Order Logic. It is routinely used in computer science modules on mathematical logic. Formal proofs in the sequent calculus are finite trees obtained…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Arno Ehle , Norbert Hundeshagen , Martin Lange

We discuss how to write down three specific natural numbers $A$, $B$, $C$ such that for any real number $r$ you've probably ever thought of, it is consistent with $\mathsf{ZFC}$ set theory that $$\def\Rb{\mathbb{R}}\def\Nb{\mathbb{N}}r =…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-03 James E. Hanson , Connor Watson