Cardinality and counting quantifiers on omega-automatic structures

dc.creatorKaiser, Lukasz
dc.creatorRubin, Sasha
dc.creatorBárány, Vince
dc.date2008-02-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:22:05Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:22:05Z
dc.descriptionWe investigate structures that can be represented by omega-automata, so called omega-automatic structures, and prove that relations defined over such structures in first-order logic expanded by the first-order quantifiers `there exist at most $\aleph_0$ many', 'there exist finitely many' and 'there exist $k$ modulo $m$ many' are omega-regular. The proof identifies certain algebraic properties of omega-semigroups. As a consequence an omega-regular equivalence relation of countable index has an omega-regular set of representatives. This implies Blumensath's conjecture that a countable structure with an $ω$-automatic presentation can be represented using automata on finite words. This also complements a very recent result of Hjörth, Khoussainov, Montalban and Nies showing that there is an omega-automatic structure which has no injective presentation.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2866
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2866
dc.identifierDans Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on the Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science - STACS 2008, Bordeaux : France (2008)
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/155250
dc.subjectLogic in Computer Science
dc.titleCardinality and counting quantifiers on omega-automatic structures
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