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Decidability and classification of the theory of integers with primes

Logic 2016-02-16 v2

Abstract

We show that under Dickson's conjecture about the distribution of primes in the natural numbers, the theory Th(Z,+,1,0,Pr) where Pr is a predicate for the prime numbers and their negations is decidable, unstable and supersimple. This is in contrast with Th(Z,+,0,Pr,<) which is known to be undecidable by the works of Jockusch, Bateman and Woods.

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@article{arxiv.1601.07099,
  title  = {Decidability and classification of the theory of integers with primes},
  author = {Itay Kaplan and Saharon Shelah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.07099},
  year   = {2016}
}