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On Elementary Theories of Ordinal Notation Systems based on Reflection Principles

Logic 2013-12-12 v1

Abstract

We consider the constructive ordinal notation system for the ordinal ϵ0{\epsilon_0} that were introduced by L.D. Beklemishev. There are fragments of this system that are ordinal notation systems for the smaller ordinals ωn{\omega_n} (towers of ω{\omega}-exponentiations of the height nn). This systems are based on Japaridze's provability logic GLP\mathbf{GLP}. They are closely related with the technique of ordinal analysis of PA\mathbf{PA} and fragments of PA\mathbf{PA} based on iterated reflection principles. We consider this notation system and it's fragments as structures with the signatures selected in a natural way. We prove that the full notation system and it's fragments, for ordinals ω4{\ge\omega_4}, have undecidable elementary theories. We also prove that the fragments of the full system, for ordinals ω3{\le\omega_3}, have decidable elementary theories. We obtain some results about decidability of elementary theory, for the ordinal notation systems with weaker signatures.

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@article{arxiv.1312.3002,
  title  = {On Elementary Theories of Ordinal Notation Systems based on Reflection Principles},
  author = {Fedor Pakhomov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.3002},
  year   = {2013}
}

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23 pages

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