Topological models of arithmetic
Abstract
Ali Enayat had asked whether there is a nonstandard model of Peano arithmetic (PA) that can be represented as , where and are continuous functions on the rationals . We prove, affirmatively, that indeed every countable model of PA has such a continuous presentation on the rationals. More generally, we investigate the topological spaces that arise as such topological models of arithmetic. The reals , the reals in any finite dimension , the long line and the Cantor space do not, and neither does any Suslin line; many other spaces do; the status of the Baire space is open.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.01270,
title = {Topological models of arithmetic},
author = {Ali Enayat and Joel David Hamkins and Bartosz Wcisło},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01270},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
17 pages. Commentary can be made about this article on the second author's blog at http://jdh.hamkins.org/topological-models-of-arithmetic. In this version (v3), small misprints of the previous version are corrected, some of the results are finetuned, and an example of an uncountable polish space that supports a continuous model of Successor Arithmetic is presented (Remark 17b)