Paper: Fragments of Existential Second-Order Logic without 0-1 Laws (at LICS 1998)
Abstract
We prove that there is a Monadic Σ11 (Minimal Scott without equality) sentence without an asymptotic probability. Our result entails that the 0-1 law fails for the logics Σ11(FO2) and Σ1 1 (Minimal Godel without equality). Therefore we achieve the classification of first-order prefix classes with or without equality. According to the existence of the 0-1 law for the corresponding Σ 11 fragment. In addition, our counterexample can be viewed as a single explanation of the failure of the 0-1 law of all the fragments of existential second-order logic for which the failure is already known
BibTeX
@InProceedings{LeBars-FragmentsofExistent, author = {Jean-Marie Le Bars}, title = {Fragments of Existential Second-Order Logic without 0-1 Laws}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 1998)}, year = {1998}, month = {June}, pages = {525--536 }, location = {Indianapolis, IN, USA}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press} }