scholarly journals PROOF-THEORETIC STRENGTHS OF WEAK THEORIES FOR POSITIVE INDUCTIVE DEFINITIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 1091-1111 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOSHIYASU ARAI
Keyword(s):  
Transfinite Induction ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Inductive Definitions ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Weak Theories ◽  
Comprehension Axiom

AbstractIn this article the lightface ${\rm{\Pi }}_1^1$-Comprehension axiom is shown to be proof-theoretically strong even over ${\rm{RCA}}_0^{\rm{*}}$, and we calibrate the proof-theoretic ordinals of weak fragments of the theory ${\rm{I}}{{\rm{D}}_1}$ of positive inductive definitions over natural numbers. Conjunctions of negative and positive formulas in the transfinite induction axiom of ${\rm{I}}{{\rm{D}}_1}$ are shown to be weak, and disjunctions are strong. Thus we draw a boundary line between predicatively reducible and impredicative fragments of ${\rm{I}}{{\rm{D}}_1}$.

scholarly journals Provable wellorderings of formal theories for transfinitely iterated inductive definitions

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Buchholz ◽  
W. Pohlers
Keyword(s):  
Transfinite Induction ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Inductive Definitions ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Intuitionistic Version ◽  
Formal Theories

By [12] we know that transfinite induction up to ΘεΩN+10 is not provable in IDN, the theory of N-times iterated inductive definitions. In this paper we will show that conversely transfinite induction up to any ordinal less than ΘεΩN+10 is provable in IDNi, the intuitionistic version of IDN, and extend this result to theories for transfinitely iterated inductive definitions.In [14] Schütte proves the wellordering of his notational systems using predicates is wellordered) with Mκ ≔ {x ∈ and 0 ≤ κ ≤ N. Obviously the predicates are definable in IDNi with the defining axioms:where Prog [Mκ, X] means that X is progressive with respect to Mκ, i.e.The crucial point in Schütte's wellordering proof is Lemma 19 [14, p. 130] which can be modified towhere TI[Mκ + 1, a] is the scheme of transfinite induction over Mκ + 1 up to a.

scholarly journals A class of harmonically convergent sets

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-304
Author(s):  
Torleiv Kløve
Keyword(s):  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Lower Case ◽  
Image Position

Following Craven (1965) we say that a set M of natural numbers is harmonically convergent if converges, and we call μ(M) the harmonic sum of M. (Craven defined these concepts for sequences rather than sets, but we found it convenient to work with sets.) Throughout this paper, lower case italics denote non-negative integers.

scholarly journals Computability and the algebra of fields: Some affine constructions

1980 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. V. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Algebraic Structure ◽  
Algebraic System ◽  
Finiteness Condition ◽  
Coordinate Systems ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Algebraic Foundation ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Technical Idea ◽  
Natural Way ◽  
General Method

A natural way of studying the computability of an algebraic structure or process is to apply some of the theory of the recursive functions to the algebra under consideration through the manufacture of appropriate coordinate systems from the natural numbers. An algebraic structure A = (A; σ1,…, σk) is computable if it possesses a recursive coordinate system in the following precise sense: associated to A there is a pair (α, Ω) consisting of a recursive set of natural numbers Ω and a surjection α: Ω → A so that (i) the relation defined on Ω by n ≡α m iff α(n) = α(m) in A is recursive, and (ii) each of the operations of A may be effectively followed in Ω, that is, for each (say) r-ary operation σ on A there is an r argument recursive function on Ω which commutes the diagramwherein αr is r-fold α × … × α.This concept of a computable algebraic system is the independent technical idea of M.O.Rabin [18] and A.I.Mal'cev [14]. From these first papers one may learn of the strength and elegance of the general method of coordinatising; note-worthy for us is the fact that computability is a finiteness condition of algebra—an isomorphism invariant possessed of all finite algebraic systems—and that it serves to set upon an algebraic foundation the combinatorial idea that a system can be combinatorially presented and have effectively decidable term or word problem.

On relations as coextensive with classes

1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. V. Quine
Keyword(s):  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Previous Note ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Ordered Pairs

In a previous note I showed a new way to define the ordered pair. I made use of the notations ‘Nn’ (for class of natural numbers) and ‘Sv’ (for successor of v), remarking that they are readily defined without appeal to ordered pairs or relations. Adopting the auxiliary abbreviation: I defined the ordered pair thus:

k-Degenerate Graphs

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1082-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don R. Lick ◽  
Arthur T. White
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Disconnected Graphs ◽  
Totally Disconnected

Graphs possessing a certain property are often characterized in terms of a type of configuration or subgraph which they cannot possess. For example, a graph is totally disconnected (or, has chromatic number one) if and only if it contains no lines; a graph is a forest (or, has point-arboricity one) if and only if it contains no cycles. Chartrand, Geller, and Hedetniemi [2] defined a graph to have property Pn if it contains no subgraph homeomorphic from the complete graph Kn+1 or the complete bipartite graphFor the first four natural numbers n, the graphs with property Pn are exactly the totally disconnected graphs, forests, outerplanar and planar graphs, respectively. This unification suggested the extension of many results known to hold for one of the above four classes of graphs to one or more of the remaining classes.

scholarly journals Note on Continued Fractions and the Sequence of Natural Numbers

1932 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. ix-xiii ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Continued Fractions ◽  
Natural Question ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Image Position

When a student first approaches the theory of infinite continued fractions a natural question that suggests itself is how to evaluate the expression

A strongly minimal expansion of (ω, s)

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 205-207
Author(s):  
David Marker
Keyword(s):  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Image Position

We will show that there is a nontrivial strongly minimal expansion of (ω, s), the natural numbers with successor. Pillay and Steinhorn [1] proved that there is no -minimal expansion of (ω, ≤). This result provides an interesting contrast.The strongly minimal expansion of (ω, s) is very easy to describe. Consider the order-two permutation of ω, π recursively defined byLet T be Th(ω, s, π, 0).

Frege's theorem in a constructive setting

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 486-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Power Set ◽  
Law Of Excluded Middle ◽  
The Law ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Excluded Middle ◽  
Intuitionistic Set Theory

By Frege's Theorem is meant the result, implicit in Frege's Grundlagen, that, for any set E, if there exists a map υ from the power set of E to E satisfying the conditionthen E has a subset which is the domain of a model of Peano's axioms for the natural numbers. (This result is proved explicitly, using classical reasoning, in Section 3 of [1].) My purpose in this note is to strengthen this result in two directions: first, the premise will be weakened so as to require only that the map υ be defined on the family of (Kuratowski) finite subsets of the set E, and secondly, the argument will be constructive, i.e., will involve no use of the law of excluded middle. To be precise, we will prove, in constructive (or intuitionistic) set theory, the followingTheorem. Let υ be a map with domain a family of subsets of a set E to E satisfying the following conditions:(i) ø ϵdom(υ)(ii)∀U ϵdom(υ)∀x ϵ E − UU ∪ x ϵdom(υ)(iii)∀UV ϵdom(5) υ(U) = υ(V) ⇔ U ≈ V.Then we can define a subset N of E which is the domain of a model of Peano's axioms.

ℵ0-categorical structures with arbitrarily fast growth of algebraic closure

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-909
Author(s):  
David M. Evans ◽  
M. E. Pantano
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Finite Subset ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Algebraic Closure ◽  
Fast Growth ◽  
Permutation Groups ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Categorical Structure ◽  
Image Position

Various results have been proved about growth rates of certain sequences of integers associated with infinite permutation groups. Most of these concern the number of orbits of the automorphism group of an ℵ0-categorical structure on the set of unordered n-subsets or on the set of n-tuples of elements of . (Recall that by the Ryll-Nardzewski Theorem, if is countable and ℵ0-categorical, the number of the orbits of its automorphism group Aut() on the set of n-tuples from is finite and equals the number of complete n-types consistent with the theory of .) The book [Ca90] is a convenient reference for these results. One of the oldest (in the realms of ‘folklore’) is that for any sequence (Kn)n∈ℕ of natural numbers there is a countable ℵ0-categorical structure such that the number of orbits of Aut() on the set of n-tuples from is greater than kn for all n.These investigations suggested the study of the growth rate of another sequence. Let be an ℵ0-categorical structure and X be a finite subset of . Let acl(X) be the algebraic closure of X, that is, the union of the finite X-definable subsets of . Equivalently, this is the union of the finite orbits on of Aut()(X), the pointwise stabiliser of X in Aut(). Define

Monotone inductive definitions over the continuum

1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Cenzer
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Logic ◽  
Recursion Theory ◽  
Axiom System ◽  
Baire Space ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Inductive Definition ◽  
Inductive Definitions ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Continuum

Monotone inductive definitions occur frequently throughout mathematical logic. The set of formulas in a given language and the set of consequences of a given axiom system are examples of (monotone) inductively defined sets. The class of Borel subsets of the continuum can be given by a monotone inductive definition. Kleene's inductive definition of recursion in a higher type functional (see [6]) is fundamental to modern recursion theory; we make use of it in §2.Inductive definitions over the natural numbers have been studied extensively, beginning with Spector [11]. We list some of the results of that study in §1 for comparison with our new results on inductive definitions over the continuum. Note that for our purposes the continuum is identified with the Baire space ωω.It is possible to obtain simple inductive definitions over the continuum by introducing real parameters into inductive definitions over N—as in the definition of recursion in [5]. This is itself an interesting concept and is discussed further in [4]. These parametric inductive definitions, however, are in general weaker than the unrestricted set of inductive definitions, as is indicated below.In this paper we outline, for several classes of monotone inductive definitions over the continuum, solutions to the following characterization problems:(1) What is the class of sets which may be given by such inductive definitions ?(2) What is the class of ordinals which are the lengths of such inductive definitions ?These questions are made more precise below. Most of the results of this paper were announced in [2].

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