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First order complexity of finite random structures

Logic in Computer Science 2024-09-04 v2 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics Logic Probability

Abstract

For a sequence of random structures with nn-element domains over a relational signature, we define its first order (FO) complexity as a certain subset in the Banach space /c0\ell^{\infty}/c_0. The well-known FO zero-one law and FO convergence law correspond to FO complexities equal to {0,1}\{0,1\} and a subset of R\mathbb{R}, respectively. We present a hierarchy of FO complexity classes, introduce a stochastic FO reduction that allows to transfer complexity results between different random structures, and deduce using this tool several new logical limit laws for binomial random structures. Finally, we introduce a conditional distribution on graphs, subject to a FO sentence φ\varphi, that generalises certain well-known random graph models, show instances of this distribution for every complexity class, and prove that the set of all φ\varphi validating 0--1 law is not recursively enumerable.

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@article{arxiv.2402.02567,
  title  = {First order complexity of finite random structures},
  author = {Danila Demin and Maksim Zhukovskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02567},
  year   = {2024}
}
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