Revisiting two-variable logic
Tony Tan ( Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taiwan University )
- 11:30 10th September 2019 ( Hilary Term 2019 )TBA
In this talk we will present another proof for the well-known "small model property" of two-variable logic.
As far as we know, existing proofs of this property rely heavily on model theoretic concepts.
In contrast, we will present a proof that is essentially a very simple counting argument.
Matching lower bounds will also be considered.