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Monadic second order theory of "backwards tree" -- is it decidable?
A famous result by Rabin states that the monadic second order theory of the binary tree is decidable. By the binary tree, understand the free monoid $\{0,1\}^*$ of words, with operations $S_0(w)=w0$ ...
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Rabin's proofs of emptiness and complementation problems for automata on infinite trees
I have originally asked this question on Math.SE, but I think it is more suitable here.
I have been reading M. Rabin's 1969 article Decidability of Second-Order Theories and Automata on Infinite ...