On decidability of monadic logic of order over the naturals extended by monadic predicates

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Rabinovich

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A fundamental result of Buchi states that the set of monadic second-order formulas true in the structure (Nat, is decidable. The Elgot and Rabin automata theoretical method has been generalized and sharpened over the years and their results were extended to a variety of unary predicates. We give a sufficient and necessary model-theoretical condition for the decidability of the monadic theory of (Nat,