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The MSO+U Theory of (N,<) Is Undecidable

Authors Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Pawel Parys, Szymon Torunczyk

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  • automata
  • logic
  • unbounding quantifier
  • bounds
  • undecidability

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Abstract

We consider the logic MSO+U, which is monadic second-order logic extended with the unbounding quantifier. The unbounding quantifier is used to say that a property of finite sets holds for sets of arbitrarily large size. We prove that the logic is undecidable on infinite words, i.e. the MSO+U theory of (N,<) is undecidable. This settles an open problem about the logic, and improves a previous undecidability result, which used infinite trees and additional axioms from set theory.

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Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Pawel Parys, and Szymon Torunczyk. The MSO+U Theory of (N,<) Is Undecidable. In 33rd Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 47, pp. 21:1-21:8, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2016.21

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Mikolaj Bojanczyk
Pawel Parys
Szymon Torunczyk

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