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Modest theory of short chains. I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Yuri Gurevich*
Affiliation:
Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Abstract

This is the first part of a two part work on the monadic theory of short orders (embedding neither ω1 nor ω1*. This part provides the technical groundwork for decidability results. Other applications are possible.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1979

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