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An algorithm to determine, for any prime p, a polynomial-sized Horn sentence which expresses “The cardinality is not p

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Sauro Tulipani*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Camerino, 62032 (MC) Camerino, Italy

Abstract

Given a prime p, we exhibit a Horn sentence Hp which expresses “the cardinality is not p” and has size O(p5 log p).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1985

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