Distal expansions of Presburger arithmetic by a sparse predicate
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2025-09-03 v3 Number Theory
Abstract
We prove that the structure is distal for all congruence-periodic sparse predicates . We do so by constructing strong honest definitions for representative formulas of the theory, providing a rare example of concrete distal decompositions.
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@article{arxiv.2401.07998,
title = {Distal expansions of Presburger arithmetic by a sparse predicate},
author = {Mervyn Tong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07998},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
24 pages; proof restructured to give explicit strong honest definitions