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This paper proposes and argues for a counterintuitive thesis: the truly valuable capabilities of large language models (LLMs) reside precisely in the part that cannot be fully captured by human-readable discrete rules. The core argument is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Quan Cheng

Transfinite set theory including the axiom of choice supplies the following basic theorems: (1) Mappings between infinite sets can always be completed, such that at least one of the sets is exhausted. (2) The real numbers can be well…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 W. Mueckenheim

Traditionally a tiling is defined with a finite number of finite forbidden patterns. We can generalize this notion considering any set of patterns. Generalized tilings defined in this way can be studied with a dynamical point of view,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-02-11 Nathalie Aubrun , Mathieu Sablik

We present a version of arithmetic in all finite types which allows for a definition of equality at higher types for which all congruence are derivable, for which the soundness of the Dialectica interpretation is provable inside the system…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Benno van den Berg

Formal languages are sets of strings of symbols described by a set of rules specific to them. In this note, we discuss a certain class of formal languages, called regular languages, and put forward some elementary results. The properties of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Aalok Thakkar

It is well known that for transitive unimodal logics, finite height is both necessary and sufficient for local tabularity. It is also well known that for intermediate logics, finite height is sufficient (but not necessary) for local…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Ilya B. Shapirovsky

We introduce formal languages over infinite alphabets where words may contain binders. We define the notions of nominal language, nominal monoid, and nominal regular expressions. Moreover, we extend history-dependent automata (HD-automata)…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-17 Alexander Kurz , Tomoyuki Suzuki , Emilio Tuosto

We define natural topologies on the Colombeau algebras which are compatible with the algebraic structure. These topologies reduces do Scarpalezos sharp topologies when restricted. with this we take a positive step towards topological…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2008-06-27 J. Aragona , R. Fernandez , S. O. Juriaans

This note points out a lemma on closures of monotonic increasing functions and shows how it is applicable to decomposition and modularity for semantics defined as the least fixedpoint of some monotonic function. In particular it applies to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Michael J. Maher

We consider the class of languages defined in the 2-variable fragment of the first-order logic of the linear order. Many interesting characterizations of this class are known, as well as the fact that restricting the number of quantifier…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Manfred Kufleitner , Pascal Weil

We prove level-by-level upper and lower bounds on the strength of determinacy for finite differences of sets in the hyperarithmetical hierarchy in terms of subsystems of finite-and transfinite-order arithmetic, extending the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Juan Pablo Aguilera , Thibaut Kouptchinsky

We give a model-theoretic characterisation of the geometric theories classified by \'etendues -- the `locally localic' topoi. They are the theories where each model is determined, syntactically and semantically, by any witness of a fixed…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Joshua Wrigley

Classical mathematical models used in the semantics of programming languages and computation rely on idealized abstractions such as infinite-precision real numbers, unbounded sets, and unrestricted computation. In contrast, concrete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Lian Wen

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

Some notions in mathematics can be considered relative. Relative is a term used to denote when the variation in the position of an observer implies variation in properties or measures on the observed object. We know, from Skolem theorem,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-03-04 Edward Hermann Haeusler

Regular cost functions have been introduced recently as an extension to the notion of regular languages with counting capabilities, which retains strong closure, equivalence, and decidability properties. The specificity of cost functions is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Denis Kuperberg

We give characterizations, for various fragments of geometric logic, of the class of theories classified by a locally connected (resp. connected and locally connected, atomic, compact, presheaf) topos, and exploit the existence of multiple…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-26 Olivia Caramello

We define compact automata and show that every language has a unique minimal compact automaton. We also define recognition of languages by compact left semitopological monoids and construct the analogue of the syntactic monoid in this…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Benjamin Steinberg

In recent work, comonads and associated structures have been used to analyse a range of important notions in finite model theory, descriptive complexity and combinatorics. We extend this analysis to Hybrid logic, a widely-studied extension…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Samson Abramsky , Dan Marsden

The paper contains lower bounds on the counting function of the positive eigenvalues of the interior transmission problem when the latter is elliptic. In particular, these bounds justify the existence of an infinite set of interior…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Evgeny Lakshtanov , Boris Vainberg