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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2015 Volume 289, Pages 206–226 (Mi tm3627)

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On elementary theories of ordinal notation systems based on reflection principles

F. N. Pakhomov

Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: L.D. Beklemishev has recently introduced a constructive ordinal notation system for the ordinal $\varepsilon _0$. We consider this system and its fragments for smaller ordinals $\omega _n$ (towers of $\omega $-exponentiations of height $n$). These systems are based on Japaridze's well-known polymodal provability logic. They are used in the technique of ordinal analysis of the Peano arithmetic $\mathbf {PA}$ and its fragments on the basis of iterated reflection schemes. Ordinal notation systems can be regarded as models of the first-order language. We prove that the full notation system and its fragments for ordinals ${\ge }\,\omega _4$ have undecidable elementary theories. At the same time, the fragments of the full system for ordinals ${\le }\,\omega _3$ have decidable elementary theories. We also obtain results on decidability of the elementary theory for ordinal notation systems with weaker signatures.

UDC: 510.227

Received: March 15, 2015

DOI: 10.1134/S0371968515020120


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2015, 289, 194–212

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