A classification of incompleteness statements
Logic
2026-01-28 v3
Abstract
For which choices of does no sufficiently strong -sound and -definable extension theory prove its own -soundness? We give a complete answer, thereby delimiting the generalizations of G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem that hold within second-order arithmetic.
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@article{arxiv.2409.05973,
title = {A classification of incompleteness statements},
author = {Henry Towsner and James Walsh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.05973},
year = {2026}
}