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Interpreting second-order logic in the monadic theory of order1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Yuri Gurevich*
Affiliation:
Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
Saharon Shelah
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
*
Department of Computer and Conmunication Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Abstract

Under a weak set-theoretic assumption we interpret second-order logic in the monadic theory of order.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1983

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Footnotes

1

This work was done in principle during the 1980–81 academic year when both authors were fellows in the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

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