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Usual math sets have special types: countable, compact, open, occasionally Borel, rarely projective, etc. Each such set is described by a single Set Theory formula with parameters unrelated to other formulas. Exotic expressions involving…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Leonid A. Levin

The Church-Turing Thesis confuses numerical computations with symbolic computations. In particular, any model of computability in which equality is not definable, such as the lambda-models underpinning higher-order programming languages, is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Barry Jay , Jose Vergara

Experimental science usually relies on laboratory procedures that, after finitely many steps, terminate with numerical reports on physical quantities. This paper argues that such procedures can be understood as algorithmic once the…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Isaac Pérez Castillo

The notion of programming paradigms, with associated programming languages and methodologies, is a well established tenet of Computer Science pedagogy, enshrined in international curricula. However, this notion sits ill with Kuhn's classic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Greg Michaelson

We suggest a diagrammatic model of computation based on an axiom of distributivity. A diagram of a decorated coloured tangle, similar to those that appear in low dimensional topology, plays the role of a circuit diagram. Equivalent diagrams…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Avishy Y. Carmi , Daniel Moskovich

We use fast-growing finite and infinite sequences of natural numbers and more complicated constructs to define models of hypercomputation and interpret non-arithmetic predicates, with the strongest extensions reaching full second order…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-07-19 Dmytro Taranovsky

We consider and characterize classes of finite and countably categorical structures and their theories preserved under $E$-operators and $P$-operators. We describe $e$-spectra and families of finite cardinalities for structures belonging to…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Sergey V. Sudoplatov

Algorithms are described and Maple implementations are provided for finding all quandles of order $n$, as well as computing all homomorphisms between two finite quandles or from a finitely presented quandle (e.g., a knot quandle) to a…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Richard Henderson , Todd Macedo , Sam Nelson

We give a model-theoretic characterization of the class of geometric theories classified by an atomic topos having enough points; in particular, we show that every complete geometric theory classified by an atomic topos is countably…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Olivia Caramello

In answer set programming, two groups of rules are considered strongly equivalent if they have the same meaning in any context. In some cases, strong equivalence of programs in the input language of the grounder gringo can be established by…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Vladimir Lifschitz

Applications like program synthesis sometimes require proving that a property holds for all of the infinitely many programs described by a grammar - i.e., an inductively defined set of programs. Current verification frameworks…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jinwoo Kim , Shaan Nagy , Thomas Reps , Loris D'Antoni

We show that $ZF+DC+$"all Turing invariant sets of reals have the perfect set property" implies that all sets of reals have the perfect set property. We also show that this result generalizes to all countable analytic equivalence relations.

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Clovis Hamel , Haim Horowitz , Saharon Shelah

We clarify the confusion, misunderstanding and misconception that the physical finiteness of the universe, if the universe is indeed finite, would rule out all hypercomputation, the kind of computation that exceeds the Turing computability,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tien D. Kieu

The present paper presents and proves a proposition concerning the time complexity of finite languages. It is shown herein, that for any finite language (a language for which the set of words composing it is finite) there is a Turing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mircea Alexandru Popescu Moscu

Sets with atoms serve as an alternative to ZFC foundations for mathematics, where some infinite, though highly symmetric sets, behave in a finitistic way. Therefore, one can try to carry over analysis of the classical algorithms from finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Michał R. Przybyłek

We demonstrate the truth of the sunflower conjecture by showing that a family $\mathcal{F}$ of sets each of cardinality at most $m$ includes a $k$-sunflower, if $|\mathcal{F}| > ( c k )^{2m}$ for a constant $c>0$ independent of $m$ and $k$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Junichiro Fukuyama

We show that the values of entropies of multidimensional shifts of finite type (SFTs) are characterized by a certain computation-theoretic property: a real number $h\geq 0$ is the entropy of such an SFT if and only if it is right…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Michael Hochman , Tom Meyerovitch

We study finite-state transducers and their power for transforming infinite words. Infinite sequences of symbols are of paramount importance in a wide range of fields, from formal languages to pure mathematics and physics. While finite…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Jörg Endrullis , Juhani Karhumäki Jan Willem Klop , Aleksi Saarela

We show that every countable cograph has either one or infinitely many siblings. This answers, very partially, a conjecture of Thomass\'e. The main tools are the notion of well quasi ordering and the correspondence between cographs and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Gena Hahn , Maurice Pouzet , Robert Woodrow

For a family $\mathcal{H} \subseteq \binom{[n]}{k}$, a subset $\{A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m\} \subseteq \mathcal{H}$ is called a \textit{matching} of size~$m$ if the sets $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_m$ are pairwise disjoint. The \textit{matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Haixiang Zhang , Mengyu Cao , Mei Lu