CMPSCI Theory Seminar

An Introduction to Zero-One Laws

Sarah Weissman, UMass Amherst

10 December 2002

4:00 p.m., Room 140 Computer Science Building

A logic has a zero-one law if for each sentence the fraction of structures with universe {1,2, ..., n} that satisfy that sentence goes to 1 or 0, as n goes to infinity. We provide an introduction to zero-one laws and present a proof by Fagin for the zero-one law for first order logic.

(This is the last Theory Seminar of the semester.)










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