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On finite rigid structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Yuri Gurevich  and
Saharon Shelah
Yuri Gurevich
Affiliation:
Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA, E-mail: gurevich@umich.edu
Saharon Shelah
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA, E-mail: shelah@math.huji.ac.il
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Abstract

The main result of this paper is a probabilistic construction of finite rigid structures. It yields a finitely axiomatizable class of finite rigid structures where no formula with counting quantifiers defines a linear order.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 61 , Issue 2 , June 1996 , pp. 549 - 562
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1996

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