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Three-variable bipartite graph sentences suffice
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Recorded scope: equivalence between complement closure for all first-order spectra and closure for three-variable sentences over one symmetric binary relation whose finite models are bipartite
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"family": "all first-order spectra and the three-variable one-relation bipartite normal form"
}Originating problem: Asser's complement problem for first-order spectra
Recorded relationships: Asser's complement problem remains open
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Kopczyński and Tan first reduce the complement question to three-variable sentences over binary relations. Their later graph encoding replaces any collection of binary relations by one symmetric binary relation. For a source sentence \(\Phi\), the construction gives constants \(p,q\) and a sentence \(\Phi'\) with \[ \operatorname{Spec}(\Phi')=\{pn+q:n\in\operatorname{Spec}(\Phi)\}. \] Every model of \(\Phi'\) is an undirected bipartite graph, and the transformation preserves the number of variables when at least three are available. The proof of Corollary 1.2 combines this encoding with the spectrum-machine characterization and a padding argument to obtain the stated equivalence.
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Verification source: doi.org ↗, Corollary 1.2, pp. 2 and 13–14
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