Interpretations of Presburger Arithmetic in Itself
Logic
2018-01-31 v2
Abstract
Presburger arithmetic PrA is the true theory of natural numbers with addition. We study interpretations of PrA in itself. We prove that all one-dimensional self-interpretations are definably isomorphic to the identity self-interpretation. In order to prove the results we show that all linear orders that are interpretable in (N,+) are scattered orders with the finite Hausdorff rank and that the ranks are bounded in terms of the dimension of the respective interpretations. From our result about self-interpretations of PrA it follows that PrA isn't one-dimensionally interpretable in any of its finite subtheories. We note that the latter was conjectured by A. Visser.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.07341,
title = {Interpretations of Presburger Arithmetic in Itself},
author = {Alexander Zapryagaev and Fedor Pakhomov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07341},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Published in proceedings of LFCS 2018