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The full binary tree cannot be interpreted in a chain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Alexander Rabinovich
Alexander Rabinovich*
Affiliation:
The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. E-mail: rabinoa@post.tau.ac.il
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Abstract

We show that for no chain C there is a monadic-second order interpretation of the full binary tree in C.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 1489 - 1498
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2010

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