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  • 标题:Undecidable First-Order Theories of Affine Geometries
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  • 作者:Antti Kuusisto ; Jeremy Meyers ; Jonni Virtema
  • 期刊名称:Logical Methods in Computer Science
  • 印刷版ISSN:1860-5974
  • 电子版ISSN:1860-5974
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:9
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:1
  • DOI:10.2168/LMCS-9(4:26)2013
  • 出版社:Technical University of Braunschweig
  • 摘要:Tarski initiated a logic-based approach to formal geometry that studies first-order structures with a ternary betweenness relation \beta, and a quaternary equidistance relation \equiv. Tarski established, inter alia, that the first-order (FO) theory of (R^2,\beta,\equiv) is decidable. Aiello and van Benthem (2002) conjectured that the FO-theory of expansions of (R^2,\beta) with unary predicates is decidable. We refute this conjecture by showing that for all n>1, the FO-theory of the class of expansions of (R^2,\beta) with just one unary predicate is not even arithmetical. We also define a natural and comprehensive class C of geometric structures (T,\beta), and show that for each structure (T,\beta) in C, the FO-theory of the class of expansions of (T,\beta) with a single unary predicate is undecidable. We then consider classes of expansions of structures (T,\beta) with a restricted unary predicate, for example a finite predicate, and establish a variety of related undecidability results. In addition to decidability questions, we briefly study the expressivities of universal MSO and weak universal MSO over expansions of (R^n,\beta). While the logics are incomparable in general, over expansions of (R^n,\beta), formulae of weak universal MSO translate into equivalent formulae of universal MSO.
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