Convergence Laws for Extensions of First-Order Logic with Averaging
For many standard models of random structure, first-order logic sentences exhibit a convergence phenomenon on random inputs. The most well-known example is for random graphs with constant edge probability, where the probabilities of first-order sentences converge to 0 or 1. In other cases, such as certain "sparse random graph" models, the probabilities of sentences converge, although not necessarily to 0 or 1. In this work we deal with extensions of first-order logic with aggregate operators, variations of averaging. These logics will consist of real-valued terms, and we allow arbitrary Lipschitz functions to be used as "connectives". We show that some of the well-known convergence laws extend to this setting.
Authors
- Sam Adam-Day (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3316-1954)
- Alberto Larrauri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5935-4917)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-06-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/lics65433.2025.00067
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Algebra and Logic
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.50