Universal Horn Sentences and the Joint Embedding Property.

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Abstract

The finite models of a universal sentence Φ in a finite relational signature are the age of a structure if and only if Φ has the joint embedding property. We prove that the computational problem whether a given universal sentence Φ has the joint embedding property is undecidable, even if Φ is additionally Horn and the signature of Φ only contains relation symbols of arity at most two.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number4
Number of pages15
JournalDiscrete mathematics & theoretical computer science
Volume23
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2022
Peer-reviewedYes

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ORCID /0000-0001-8228-3611/work/142241144
Scopus 85142044832
Mendeley c495ca3f-bb4f-3594-9e65-4404c9ea44c2