Hereditary Undecidability of Some Theories of Finite Structures

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  • Ross Willard
چکیده

Using a result of Gurevich and Lewis on the word problem for finite semigroups, we give short proofs that the following theories are hereditarily undecidable: (1) finite graphs of vertex-degree at most 3; (2) finite nonvoid sets with two distinguished permutations; (3) finitedimensional vector spaces over a finite field with two distinguished endomorphisms.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Symb. Log.

دوره 59  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1994