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Existential monadic second order logic of undirected graphs: a disproof of the Le Bars conjecture
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- In 2001, J.-M. Le Bars disproved the zero-one law (that says that every sentence from a certain logic is either true asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.), or false a.a.s.) for existential monadic second order sentences (EMSO) about undirected graphs. He proved that there exists an EMSO sentence $\phi$ such that ${\sf P}(G_n \models\phi)$ does not converge as $n\to\infty$ (here, the probability distribution is uniform over the set of all graphs on the labeled set of vertices $\{1, \dots, n\}$). In the same paper, he conjectured that, for EMSO sentences with 2 first order variables, the zero-one law holds. In this paper, we disprove this conjecture.
- Subjects :
- Mathematics - Combinatorics
Mathematics - Logic
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Details
- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1807.01794
- Document Type :
- Working Paper