• DocumentCode
    3290806
  • Title

    Generalized quantifiers and 0-1 laws

  • Author

    Dawar, Anuj ; Grädel, Erich

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wales, Swansea, UK
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    26-29 Jun 1995
  • Firstpage
    54
  • Lastpage
    64
  • Abstract
    We study 0-1 laws for extensions of first-order logic by Lindstrom quantifiers. We state sufficient conditions on a quantifier Q expressing a graph property, for the logic FO[Q]-the extension of first-order logic by means of the quantifier Q-to have a 0-1 law. We use these conditions to show, in particular, that FO[Rig], where Rig is the quantifier expressing rigidity, has a 0-1 law. We also show that FO[Ham], where Ham is the quantifier expressing Hamiltonicity, does not have a 0-1 law. Blass and Harary pose the question whether there is a logic which is powerful enough to express Hamiltonicity or rigidity and which has a 0-1 law. It is a consequence of our results that there is no such regular logic (in the sense of abstract model theory) in the case of Hamiltonicity, but there is one in the case of rigidity. We also consider sequences of vectorized quantifiers, and show that the extensions of first-order logic obtained by adding such sequences generated by quantifiers that are closed under substructures have 0-1 laws
  • Keywords
    formal logic; graph theory; 0-1 laws; Hamiltonicity; Lindstrom quantifiers; abstract model theory; first-order logic; generalized quantifiers; graph property; sufficient conditions; vectorized quantifiers; Combinatorial mathematics; Computer science; H infinity control; Logic;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Logic in Computer Science, 1995. LICS '95. Proceedings., Tenth Annual IEEE Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1043-6871
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7050-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LICS.1995.523244
  • Filename
    523244