Abstracts of Lectures on Definability and Computability

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8.3. 2001

Definability in Second Order Logic

Introducing Second Order Logic
Definability of graph theoretic concepts
Many examples
First Order Logic, Monadic Second Order Logic, Fragments of Second Order Logic
Undecidability of the consequence problem

15.3. 2001

How to show non-definability?

Ehrenfeucht Fraisse games, transducers and reductions

22.3. 2001

Finite Automata and Monadic Second Order Logic

FA-recognizable languages, regular languages, MSOL-definable languages
Many examples
B"uchi's Theorem (also due to Trakhtenbrot, Elgot, Vaught)
What is so special about words?

29.3. 2001

The polynomial hierarchy and Second Order Logic

Characterizing NP (Fagin; Christen)
Characterizing the polynomial hierarchy PH (Meyer, Stockmeyer)
Characterizing P (Graedel)

5.4. 2001

Characterizing P and (non)-deterministic logarithmic space

Fixed point Logic
Transitive closures
The Immerman-Vardi theorem

PESACH

19.4. 2001

Invariant definability and P/poly

Yom Atzmaut

3.5. 2001

First Order Definability in Arithmetic, I

Addition and Order
Decidability of Presburger Arithmetic
Definability of Multiplication

10.5. 2001

First Order Definability in Arithmetic, II

Diophantine definability
Matyasevich's theorem

17.5. 2001

First Order Definability in Arithmetic, III

Proof of Matyasevich's theorem

24.5. 2001

What is so special about First order Logic?

Completeness and Compactness Theorem
Loewenheim-Skolem-Tarski Theorem
Characterizing First Order Logic (Lindstroem)

31.5. 2001 *

Tarski Centenary

7.6. 2001

Definability over the Real Numbers

Tarski's theorem on Elimination of Quantifiers

14.6. 2001

Computability over the Real Numbers

Blum-Shub-Smale model of Computation

21.6. 2001

The millenium problem

P =? NP over various fields
What have we learnd concerning P=?NP