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Transition Algebra (TA) is a type of infinite logic introduced to discuss rewriting systems. The natural deductive proof systems already introduced in TA satisfy completeness for countable signatures. However, it lacks compactness, making…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Go Hashimoto

Many canonical machine learning problems boil down to a convex optimization problem with a finite sum structure. However, whereas much progress has been made in developing faster algorithms for this setting, the inherent limitations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-01 Yossi Arjevani , Ohad Shamir

This paper presents a family of rapidly convergent summation formulas for various finite sums of the form $\sum_{k=0}^{\lfloor x\rfloor}f(k)$, where $x$ is a positive real number.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-31 Raphael Schumacher

The decision time of an infinite time algorithm is the supremum of its halting times over all real inputs. The decision time of a set of reals is the least decision time of an algorithm that decides the set; semidecision times of…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Merlin Carl , Philipp Schlicht , Philip Welch

We show that many countable support iterations of proper forcings preserve Souslin trees. We establish sufficient conditions in terms of games and we draw connections to other preservation properties. We present a proof of preservation…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Heike Mildenberger , Saharon Shelah

For every natural number $n$, there exist finitely presented groups with residual finiteness depths $\omega\cdot n$ and $\omega\cdot n + 1$. The ordinals that arise as the residual finiteness depth of a finitely generated group…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Martin R. Bridson

We show that it is consistent to have an uncountable sequential group of intermediate sequential order while no countable such groups exist. This is proved by adding $\omega_2$ Cohen reals to a model of $\diamondsuit$.

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-11-16 Alexander Shibakov

We prove that in every ring of generalised power series with non-positive real exponents and coefficients in a field of characteristic zero, every series admits a factorisation into finitely many irreducibles of infinite support, the number…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Sonia L'Innocente , Vincenzo Mantova

We describe an algorithm to count the number of distinct real zeros of a polynomial (square) system f. The algorithm performs O(n D kappa(f)) iterations where n is the number of polynomials (as well as the dimension of the ambient space), D…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-07-12 Felipe Cucker , Teresa Krick , Gregorio Malajovich , Mario Wschebor

Exact representations of real numbers such as the signed digit representation or more generally linear fractional representations or the infinite Gray code represent real numbers as infinite streams of digits. In earlier work by the first…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ulrich Berger , Dieter Spreen

We consider decompositions of the real line into pairwise disjoint Borel pieces so that each piece is closed under addition. How many pieces can there be? We prove among others that the number of pieces is either at most 3 or uncountable,…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Márton Elekes , Tamás Keleti

We give another proof of ordinal analysis of $I\Sigma_{k}$-fragments of Peano Arithmetic which is free from cut-elimination of $\omega$-logic. Our main tool is a direct witnessing argument utilizing game notion, motivated from the realm of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Eitetsu Ken

Assuming that there is no inner model with a strong cardinal, the following is shown: any subset of \omega_1 can be made \Delta^1_3 (in the codes) by a reasonable set-forcing; there is a reasonable set-generic extension with a \Delta^1_3…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Ralf Schindler

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

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

We show that higher Sacks forcing at a regular limit cardinal and club Miller forcing at an uncountable regular cardinal both add a diamond sequence. We answer the longstanding question, whether $\kappa = \kappa^{<\kappa} \geq\aleph_1$…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Heike Mildenberger , Saharon Shelah

We present an exponential-time algorithm approximating the minimal lookahead necessary to win an $\omega$-regular delay game.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Martin Zimmermann

We introduce the notion of an arithmetical type of combinatorial family of reals, which serves to generalize different types of families such as mad families, maximal cofinitary groups, ultrafilter bases, splitting families and other…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Vera Fischer , Lukas Schembecker

We prove the existence of nonperiodic, properly embedded minimal surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^2\times\mathbb{S}^1$ with genus zero, infinitely many ends and one limit end (in particular, they have infinite total curvature).

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laurent Mazet , M. Magdalena Rodriguez , Martin Traizet

We construct a topos in which the Dedekind reals are countable. The topos arises from a new kind of realizability, which we call parameterized realizability, based on partial combinatory algebras whose application depends on a parameter.…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Andrej Bauer , James E. Hanson