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We study on which classes of graphs first-order logic (FO) and monadic second-order logic (MSO) have the same expressive power. We show that for all classes C of graphs that are closed under taking subgraphs, FO and MSO have the same…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Michael Elberfeld , Martin Grohe , Till Tantau

We prove that the category of Nachbin's compact ordered spaces and order-preserving continuous maps between them is dually equivalent to a variety of algebras, with operations of at most countable arity. Furthermore, we show that the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Marco Abbadini

We develop a second-order extension of intuitionistic modal logic, allowing quantification over propositions, both syntactically and semantically. A key feature of second-order logic is its capacity to define positive connectives from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Justus Becker , Anupam Das , Sonia Marin , Paaras Padhiar

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

If $\mathcal{L}$ is an abstract logic (a.k.a. model theoretic logic), we can define the inner model $C(\mathcal{L})$ by replacing first order logic with $\mathcal{L}$ in G\"odel's definition of the inner model $L$ of constructible sets. Set…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Jouko Väänänen , Ur Ya'ar

Lindstr\"om's Theorem characterizes first order logic as the maximal logic satisfying the Compactness Theorem and the Downward L\"owenheim-Skolem Theorem. If we do not assume that logics are closed under negation, there is an obvious…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Saharon Shelah , Jouko Väänänen

We study the expressive power of the two-variable fragment of order-invariant first-order logic. This logic departs from first-order logic in two ways: first, formulas are only allowed to quantify over two variables. Second, formulas can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Julien Grange

We prove a compactness theorem for full Boolean-valued models. As an application, we show that if $T$ is a complete countable theory and $\mathcal{B}$ is a complete Boolean algebra, then $\lambda^+$-saturated $\mathcal{B}$-valued models of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Douglas Ulrich

This paper is devoted to systematic studies of some extensions of first-order G\"odel logic. The first extension is the first-order rational G\"odel logic which is an extension of first-order G\"odel logic, enriched by countably many…

Generalizing standard monadic second-order logic for Kripke models, we introduce monadic second-order logic interpreted over coalgebras for an arbitrary set functor. Similar to well-known results for monadic second-order logic over trees,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Sebastian Enqvist , Fatemeh Seifan , Yde Venema

We show a model construction for a system of higher-order illative combinatory logic $\mathcal{I}_\omega$, thus establishing its strong consistency. We also use a variant of this construction to provide a complete embedding of first-order…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Łukasz Czajka

A condition, in two variants, is given such that if a property P satisfies this condition, then every logic which is at least as strong as first-order logic and can express P fails to have the compactness property. The result is used to…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Vera Koponen , Tapani Hyttinen

The use of Extended Logics to replace ordinary second order definability in Kleene's {\em Ramified Analytical Hierarchy} is investigated. This mirrors a similar investigation of Kennedy, Magidor and V\"a\"an\"anen \cite{KeMaVa2016} where…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Philip Welch

We show that, contrary to the commonly held view, there is a natural and optimal compactness theorem for $\mathrm{L}_{\infty\infty}$ which generalizes the usual compactness theorem for first order logic. The key to this result is the switch…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Juan M Santiago Suárez , Matteo Viale

In this paper, we study the notion of a generically extendible cardinal, which is a generic version of an extendible cardinal. We prove that the generic extendibility of $\omega_1$ or $\omega_2$ has small consistency strength, but that of a…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Toshimichi Usuba

We show that Morley's theorem on the number of countable models of a countable first-order theory becomes an undecidable statement when extended to second-order logic. More generally, we calculate the number of equivalence classes of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Christopher J. Eagle , Clovis Hamel , Sandra Müller , Franklin D. Tall

Weighted monadic second-order logic is a weighted extension of monadic second-order logic that captures exactly the behaviour of weighted automata. Its semantics is parameterized with respect to a semiring on which the values that weighted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Antonis Achilleos , Mathias Ruggaard Pedersen

A condition, in two variants, is given such that if a property P satisfies this condition, then every logic which is at least as strong as first-order logic and can express P fails to have the compactness property. The result is used to…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-04-15 Vera Koponen

We investigate iterating the construction of $C^{*}$, the $L$-like inner model constructed using first order logic augmented with the "cofinality $\omega$" quantifier. We first show that $\left(C^{*}\right)^{C^{*}}=C^{*}\ne L$ is…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Ur Ya'ar

We study the question of whether, for a given class of finite graphs, one can define, for each graph of the class, a linear ordering in monadic second-order logic, possibly with the help of monadic parameters. We consider two variants of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Achim Blumensath , Bruno Courcelle