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The strength of replacement in weak arithmetic

Logic in Computer Science 2007-05-23 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

The replacement (or collection or choice) axiom scheme asserts bounded quantifier exchange. We prove the independence of this scheme from various weak theories of arithmetic, sometimes under a complexity assumption.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0409015,
  title  = {The strength of replacement in weak arithmetic},
  author = {Stephen Cook and Neil Thapen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0409015},
  year   = {2007}
}