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We calculate the possible Scott ranks of countable models of Peano arithmetic. We show that no non-standard model can have Scott rank less than $\omega$ and that non-standard models of true arithmetic must have Scott rank greater than…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Antonio Montalbán , Dino Rossegger

We give Scott sentences for certain computable groups, and we use index set calculations as a way of checking that our Scott sentences are as simple as possible. We consider finitely generated groups and torsion-free abelian groups of…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Julia Knight , Vikram Saraph

Fix $n=1,2,3,\dots$ or $n=\omega$. We prove a dichotomy for Borel homomorphisms from the $n$-th Friedman-Stanley jump $=^{+n}$ to an equivalence relation $E$ which is classifiable by countable structures: if there is no reduction from…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Assaf Shani

We continue the study of computable embeddings for pairs of structures, i.e. for classes containing precisely two non-isomorphic structures. Surprisingly, even for some pairs of simple linear orders, computable embeddings induce a…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Nikolay Bazhenov , Stefan Vatev

We develop an analogue of the classical Scott analysis for metric structures and infinitary continuous logic. Among our results are the existence of Scott sentences for metric structures and a version of the Lopez-Escobar theorem. We also…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-08-03 Itai Ben Yaacov , Michal Doucha , Andre Nies , Todor Tsankov

We prove that the relation of bisimilarity between countable labelled transition systems is $\Sigma_1^1$-complete (hence not Borel), by reducing the set of non-wellorders over the natural numbers continuously to it. This has an impact on…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Pedro Sánchez Terraf

We develop general machinery to cast the class of potential canonical Scott sentences of an infinitary sentence $\Phi$ as a class of structures in a related language. From this, we show that $\Phi$ has a Borel complete expansion if and only…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Michael C. Laskowski , Douglas S. Ulrich

We give effective versions of some results on Scott sentences. We show that if $\mathcal{A}$ has a computable $\Pi_\alpha$ Scott sentence, then the orbits of all tuples are defined by formulas that are computable $\Sigma_\beta$ for some…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Rachael Alvir , Charles McCoy , Julia Knight

We study the $\kappa$-Borel-reducibility of isomorphism relations of complete first order theories by using coloured trees. Under some cardinality assumptions, we show the following: For all theories T and T', if T is classifiable and T' is…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Miguel Moreno

We investigate the complexity of embeddings between bi-embeddable structures. In analogy with categoricity spectra, we define the bi-embeddable categoricity spectrum of a structure $\mathcal A$ as the family of Turing degrees that compute…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-16 Nikolay Bazhenov , Ekaterina Fokina , Dino Rossegger , Luca San Mauro

We study two complexity notions of groups - a computable Scott sentence and the index set of a group. Finding the exact complexity of one of them usually involves finding the complexity of the other, but this is not the case sometimes. J.…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Meng-Che Ho

A framework to handle tree decompositions of the components of a Borel graph in a Borel fashion is introduced, along the lines of Tserunyan's Stallings Theorem for equivalence relations arXiv:1805.09506. This setting leads to a notion of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Héctor Jardón-Sánchez

For any limit ordinal $\lambda$, we construct a linear order $L_\lambda$ whose Scott complexity is $\Sigma_{\lambda+1}$. This completes the classification of the possible Scott sentence complexities of linear orderings. Previously, there…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-05 David Gonzalez , Matthew Harrison-Trainor , Meng-Che "Turbo" Ho

We propose a novel architecture for Graph Neural Networks that is inspired by the idea behind Tree Kernels of measuring similarity between trees by taking into account their common substructures, named fragments. By imposing a series of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Federico Ruggeri , Marco Lippi , Paolo Torroni

An \'etale structure over a topological space $X$ is a continuous family of structures (in some first-order language) indexed over $X$. We give an exposition of this fundamental concept from sheaf theory and its relevance to countable model…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Ruiyuan Chen

Every countable structure has a sentence of the infinitary logic $\mathcal{L}_{\omega_1 \omega}$ which characterizes that structure up to isomorphism among countable structures. Such a sentence is called a Scott sentence, and can be thought…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Matthew Harrison-Trainor

Recently, a surprising connection between algorithmic learning of algebraic structures and descriptive set theory has emerged. Following this line of research, we define the learning power of an equivalence relation $E$ on a topological…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-23 Vittorio Cipriani , Alberto Marcone , Luca San Mauro

The Bodirsky-Pinsker conjecture asserts a P vs. NP-complete dichotomy for the computational complexity of Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) of first-order reducts of finitely bounded homogeneous structures. Prominently, two structures…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Roman Feller , Michael Pinsker

We consider reducibility of equivalence relations (ERs, for brevity), in a nonstandard domain, in terms of the Borel reducibility and the countably determined (CD, for brevity) reducibility. This reveals phenomena partially analogous to…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Vladimir Kanovei , Michael Reeken

Transformer-based models have demonstrated significant success in various source code representation tasks. Nonetheless, traditional positional embeddings employed by these models inadequately capture the hierarchical structure intrinsic to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Patryk Bartkowiak , Filip Graliński