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arxiv: 1706.06192 · v1 · pith:PF7BZKS6new · submitted 2017-06-19 · 🧮 math.PR · math.LO

Second order logic on random rooted trees

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keywords emsotreesexpressibleorderrandomrootedtreefiniteness
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We address questions of logic and expressibility in the context of random rooted trees. Infiniteness of a rooted tree is not expressible as a first order sentence, but is expressible as an existential monadic second order sentence (EMSO). On the other hand, finiteness is not expressible as an EMSO. For a broad class of random tree models, including Galton-Watson trees with offspring distributions that have full support, we prove the stronger statement that finiteness does not agree up to a null set with any EMSO. We construct a finite tree and a non-null set of infinite trees that cannot be distinguished from each other by any EMSO of given parameters. This is proved via set-pebble Ehrenfeucht games (where an initial colouring round is followed by a given number of pebble rounds).

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