Abstract
For any property θ of a model (or graph), let μn(θ) be the fraction of models of power n which satisfy θ, and let μ(θ) = limn →∞ μn(θ) if this limit exists. For first-order properties θ, it is known that μ(θ) must be 0 or 1. We answer a question of K. Compton by proving in a strong way that this 0-1 law can fail if we allow monadic quantification (that is, quantification over sets) in defining the sentence θ. In fact, by producing a monadic sentence which codes arithmetic on n with probability μ = 1, we show that every recursive real is μ(θ) for some monadic θ.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 285-293 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Discrete Mathematics |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 1985 |
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