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Using Y.Andr\'e's result on differential equations staisfied by $E$-functions, we derive an improved version of the Siegel-Shidlovskii theorem. It gives a complete characterisation of algebraic relations over the algebraic numbers between…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 F. Beukers

This is a survey of results on definability and undefinability in models of arithmetic. The goal is to present a stark difference between undefinability results in the standard model and much stronger versions about expansions of…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Roman Kossak

In 1950, Novak and Mostowski showed that GB (G\"odel-Bernays theory of classes) is conservative over ZF, and therefore by G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem the consistency of ZF is unprovable in GB. In the same year Mostowski unveiled…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Ali Enayat

Quantum mechanics has irked physicists ever since its conception more than 100 years ago. While some of the misgivings, such as it being unintuitive, are merely aesthetic, quantum mechanics has one serious shortcoming: it lacks a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-07 S. Hossenfelder , T. N. Palmer

The problem of defining and locating free will (FW) in physics is studied. On basis of logical paradoxes, we argue that FW has a meta-theoretic character, like the concept of truth in Tarski's undefinability theorem. Free will exists…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Chetan S. Mandayam Nayakar , R. Srikanth

In a 2004 article, Udo Baumgartner and George Willis used ideas from the structure theory of totally disconnected, locally compact groups to achieve a better understanding of the contraction group U_f associated with an automorphism f of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Helge Glockner

We study systems with an Adler-Bell-Jackiw anomaly in terms of non-invertible symmetry. We present a new kind of non-invertible charge defect where a key role is played by a local current operator localized on the defect. The charge defects…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-21 Iñaki García Etxebarria , Nabil Iqbal

The mathematical notion of incompleteness (eg of rational numbers, Turing-computable functions, and arithmetic proof) does not play a key role in conventional physics. Here, a reformulation of the kinematics of quantum theory is attempted,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. N. Palmer

Are minds subject to laws of physics? Are the laws of physics computable? Are conscious thought processes computable? Currently there is little agreement as to what are the right answers to these questions. Penrose goes one step further and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 C. Calude , D. I. Campbell , K. Svozil , D. Ştefănecu

From the perspective of the physics of complex systems (1) we deal with the current state of modern physics including the crisis in physics demonstrated through its epistemological, psychological, economical as well as the social context;…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-06-06 Dragutin T. Mihailovic , Darko Kapor , Sinisa Crvenkovic , Anja Mihailovic

The paper is essentially a continuation of B.Plotkin, G.Zhitomirski, "Some logical invariants of algebras and logical relations between algebras", St.Peterburg Math. J., {19:5}, (2008) 859 -- 879, whose main notion is that of…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-04-26 Plotkin Boris

We revisit some ideas of K.-M.~Perfekt who has provided an elegant framework to detect the biduality between function or sequence spaces defined in terms of some $o$- resp.\ $O$-condition. We present new proofs under somewhat weaker…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Dirk Werner

Recent work by Faizal et al. (2025) claims that G\"odelian undecidability of non-algorithmic truths in our universe imply the impossibility of a formal, algorithmic simulation of the universe. This paper clarifies the distinction between…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Evan Redden

Transcript of G.J. Chaitin's 2 March 2000 Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture. The notion of randomness is taken from physics and applied to pure mathematics in order to shed light on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. J. Chaitin

In part I of the rebuttal (see [2] to the article [1] entitled "Uniform stabilization for the Timoshenko beam by a locally distributed damping" published in 2003, in the journal Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, we prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Fatiha Alabau-Boussouira

We investigate completeness for modal G\"odel logics with respect to finite G\"odel-Kripke models, along with related aspects. It is well known that the logics studied in [4, 11] fail to be complete with respect to finite G\"odel-Kripke…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Amanda Vidal , Ricardo O. Rodriguez

Using a novel rewriting problem, we show that several natural decision problems about finite automata are undecidable (i.e., recursively unsolvable). In contrast, we also prove three related problems are decidable. We apply one result to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Jörg Endrullis , Jeffrey Shallit , Tim Smith

This paper is a contribution to the study of extensions of arbitrary models of ZF (Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory), with no regard to countability or well-foundedness of the models involved. We present some new constructions of certain types…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Ali Enayat

These five lectures on undecidability were given to students with a good level in mathematics but with no special knowledge on logic. The first conference presents the formalization of mathematics with a short historical survey, the…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-11-30 Nicolas Bouleau , Jean-Yves Girard , Alain Louveau

This manuscript (hep-th/9906140v1) is incomplete. Please read instead S. D. G{\l}azek, T. Mas{\l}owski, Renormalized Poincar\'e algebra for effective particles in quantum field theory, Phys.Rev. D65 (2002) 065011, (hep-th/0110185).

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-01 Tomasz Masłowski , Stanisław D. Głazek