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Computability for tree presentations of continuum-size structures

Logic 2025-11-07 v1

Abstract

We formalize an existing computability-theoretic method of presenting first-order structures whose domains have the cardinality of the continuum. Work using these methods until now has emphasized their topological properties. We shift the focus to first-order properties, using computable structure theory (on countable structures) as a guide. We present three basic questions to be asked when a structure is presented as the set of paths through a computable tree, as in our definition, and also propose the concept of tree-decidability as an analogue to the notion of decidability for a countable structure. As examples, we prove decidability results for certain additive and multiplicative groups of pp-adic integers, products of these (such as the profinite completion of Z\mathbb Z), and the field of real numbers.

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@article{arxiv.2511.04152,
  title  = {Computability for tree presentations of continuum-size structures},
  author = {Jason Block and Russell Miller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.04152},
  year   = {2025}
}

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27 pages

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