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On problems of databases over a fixed infinite universe

Oleg Belegradek, Alexei Stolboushkin, Michael Taitslin (1999)

Banach Center Publications

In the relational model of databases a database state is thought of as a finite collection of relations between elements. For many applications it is convenient to pre-fix an infinite domain where the finite relations are going to be defined. Often, we also fix a set of domain functions and/or relations. These functions/relations are infinite by their nature. Some special problems arise if we use such an approach. In the paper we discuss some of the problems. We show that there exists a recursive...

On the existence of super-decomposable pure-injective modules over strongly simply connected algebras of non-polynomial growth

Stanisław Kasjan, Grzegorz Pastuszak (2014)

Colloquium Mathematicae

Assume that k is a field of characteristic different from 2. We show that if Γ is a strongly simply connected k-algebra of non-polynomial growth, then there exists a special family of pointed Γ-modules, called an independent pair of dense chains of pointed modules. Then it follows by a result of Ziegler that Γ admits a super-decomposable pure-injective module if k is a countable field.

Recursive expansions

C. Ash, J. Knight (1994)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Let A be a recursive structure, and let ψ be a recursive infinitary Π 2 sentence involving a new relation symbol. The main result of the paper gives syntactical conditions which are necessary and sufficient for every recursive copy of A to have a recursive expansion to a model of ψ, provided A satisfies certain decidability conditions. The decidability conditions involve a notion of rank. The main result is applied to prove some earlier results of Metakides-Nerode and Goncharov. In these applications,...

Relatively recursive expansions

C. Ash, J. Knight (1992)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

In this paper, we consider the following basic question. Let A be an L-structure and let ψ be an infinitary sentence in the language L∪R, where R is a new relation symbol. When is it the case that for every B ≅ A, there is a relation R such that (B,R) ⊨ ψ and R T D ( B ) ? We succeed in giving necessary and sufficient conditions in the case where ψ is a “recursive” infinitary Π 2 sentence. (A recursive infinitary formula is an infinitary formula with recursive disjunctions and conjunctions.) We consider also...

Relatively recursive expansions II

C. Ash, J. Knight, Theodore Slaman (1993)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

In [AK], we asked when a recursive structure A and a sentence φ, with a new relation symbol, have the following property: for each ℬ≅ A there is a relation S such that S is recursive relative to ℬ and ℬ,S)⊨ φ. Here we consider several related properties, in which there is a uniform procedure for determining S from ℬ ≅A, or from ℬ,¯b)≅(A,ā), for some fixed sequence of parameters ā from A; or in which ℬ and S are required to be recursive. We investigate relationships between these properties, showing...

The effective Borel hierarchy

M. Vanden Boom (2007)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Let K be a subclass of Mod() which is closed under isomorphism. Vaught showed that K is Σ α (respectively, Π α ) in the Borel hierarchy iff K is axiomatized by an infinitary Σ α (respectively, Π α ) sentence. We prove a generalization of Vaught’s theorem for the effective Borel hierarchy, i.e. the Borel sets formed by union and complementation over c.e. sets. This result says that we can axiomatize an effective Σ α or effective Π α Borel set with a computable infinitary sentence of the same complexity. This result...

Weakly maximal decidable structures

Alexis Bès, Patrick Cégielski (2008)

RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications

We prove that there exists a structure M whose monadic second order theory is decidable, and such that the first-order theory of every expansion of M by a constant is undecidable. 


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