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We present new examples of infinite words which have a decidable monadic theory. Formally, we consider structures 〈ℕ,<P〉 which expand the ordering 〈ℕ,<〉 of the natural numbers by a unary predicate P; the corresponding infinite word is the characteristic 0-1-sequence xP of P. We show that for a morphic predicate P the associated monadic second-order theory MThhℕ,<P〉 is decidable, thus extending results of Elgot and Rabin (1966) and Maes (1999). The solution is obtained in the framework of semigroup theory, which is then connected to the known automata theoretic approach of Elgot and Rabin. Finally, a large class of predicates P is exhibited such that the monadic theory MTh〈ℕ〈, P〉 is decidable, which unifies and extends the previously known examples.
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Carton, O., Thomas, W. (2000). The Monadic Theory of Morphic Infinite Words and Generalizations. In: Nielsen, M., Rovan, B. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 2000. MFCS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1893. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44612-5_23
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