Herbrand Consistency of Some Arithmetical Theories
Abstract
G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem is proved for Herbrand consistency of some arithmetical theories with bounded induction, by using a technique of logarithmic shrinking the witnesses of bounded formulas, due to Z. Adamowicz [Herbrand consistency and bounded arithmetic, \textit{Fundamenta Mathematicae} 171 (2002) 279--292]. In that paper, it was shown that one cannot always shrink the witness of a bounded formula logarithmically, but in the presence of Herbrand consistency, for theories with , any witness for any bounded formula can be shortened logarithmically. This immediately implies the unprovability of Herbrand consistency of a theory in itself. In this paper, the above results are generalized for . Also after tailoring the definition of Herbrand consistency for we prove the corresponding theorems for . Thus the Herbrand version of G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem follows for the theories and .
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@article{arxiv.1005.2654,
title = {Herbrand Consistency of Some Arithmetical Theories},
author = {Saeed Salehi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.2654},
year = {2019}
}