There is no classification of the decidably presentable structures
Logic
2017-02-23 v1
Abstract
A computable structure is decidable if, given a formula of elementary first-order logic, and a tuple , we have a decision procedure to decide whether holds of . We show that there is no reasonable classification of the decidably presentable structures. Formally, we show that the index set of the computable structures with decidable presentations is -complete. This result holds even if we restrict out attention to groups, graphs, or fields. We also show that the index sets of the computable structures with -decidable presentations is -complete for any .
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@article{arxiv.1702.06587,
title = {There is no classification of the decidably presentable structures},
author = {Matthew Harrison-Trainor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06587},
year = {2017}
}
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26 pages