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In 1984, K. Mahler asked how well elements in the Cantor middle third set can be approximated by rational numbers from that set, and by rational numbers outside of that set. We consider more general missing digit sets $C$ and construct…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Damien Roy , Johannes Schleischitz

Nets are generalisations of sequences involving possibly uncountable index sets; this notion was introduced about a century ago by Moore and Smith. They also established the generalisation to nets of various basic theorems of analysis due…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Sam Sanders

In 1984, Kurt Mahler posed the following fundamental question: How well can irrationals in the Cantor set be approximated by rationals in the Cantor set? Towards development of such a theory, we prove a Dirichlet-type theorem for this…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2011-11-21 Ryan Broderick , Lior Fishman , Asaf Reich

Given a sequence of subsets A_n of {0,...,n-1}, the Furstenberg correspondence principle provides a shift-invariant measure on Cantor space that encodes combinatorial information about infinitely many of the A_n's. Here it is shown that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-03 Jeremy Avigad

We introduce a non-wellfounded proof system for intuitionistic logic extended with inductive and co-inductive definitions, based on a syntax in which fixpoint formulas are annotated with explicit variables for ordinals. We explore the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sebastian Enqvist

In 1999, Neil Calkin and Herbert Wilf wrote "Recounting the rationals" which gave an explicit bijection between the positive integers and the positive rationals. We find several different (some new) ways to construct this enumeration and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Sam Northshield

We study a version of the Vitali covering theorem, which we call $\textsf{WHBU}$ and which is a direct weakening of the Heine-Borel theorem for uncountable coverings, called $\textsf{HBU}$. We show that $\textsf{WHBU}$ is central to measure…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Dag Normann , Sam Sanders

The logic of bunched implications (BI), introduced by O'Hearn and Pym (1999), has attracted significant attention due to its elegant proof calculus, varied semantics, and close connections to the propositional fragment of separation logic.…

This paper discusses a few main topics in Number Theory, such as the M\"{o}bius function and its generalization, leading up to the derivation of neat power series for the prime counting function, $\pi(x)$, and the prime-power counting…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Jose Risomar Sousa

The multiplicative theory of a set of numbers (which could be natural, integer, rational, real or complex numbers) is the first-order theory of the structure of that set with (solely) the multiplication operation (that set is taken to be…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Saeed Salehi

This article explores the model-dependent nature of set cardinality, emphasizing that cardinality is not absolute but varies across different axiomatic frameworks. Although Cantor's diagonal argument shows the real numbers are…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Slavica Mihaljevic Vlahovic , Branislav Dobrasin Vlahovic

We prove first-order definability of the prime subring inside polynomial rings, whose coefficient rings are (commutative unital) reduced and indecomposable. This is achieved by means of a uniform formula in the language of rings with…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Marco Barone , Nicolás Caro , Eudes Naziazeno

Cantor's ordinal numbers, a powerful extension of the natural numbers, are a cornerstone of set theory. They can be used to reason about the termination of processes, prove the consistency of logical systems, and justify some of the core…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Tom de Jong , Nicolai Kraus , Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg , Chuangjie Xu

Let f(t,X) be an irreducible polynomial over the field of rational functions k(t), where k is a number field. Let O be the ring of integers of k. Hilbert's irreducibility theorem gives infinitely many integral specializations of t to values…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Peter Müller

Kleene's computability theory based on his S1-S9 computation schemes constitutes a model for computing with objects of any finite type and extends Turing's `machine model' which formalises computing with real numbers. A fundamental…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Sam Sanders

The basic notions of quantum mechanics are formulated in terms of separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$. In terms of the Hilbert lattice $\mathcal{L}$ of closed linear subspaces of $\mathcal{H}$ the notions of state and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Eike Neumann , Martin Pape , Thomas Streicher

We establish various new results on a problem proposed by K. Mahler in 1984 concerning rational approximation to fractal sets by rational numbers inside and outside the set in question, respectively. Some of them provide a natural…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Johannes Schleischitz

A major part of computability theory focuses on the analysis of a few structures of central importance. As a tool, the method of coding with first-order formulas has been applied with great success. For instance, in the c.e. Turing degrees,…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-08-30 Andre Nies

In this paper a new integral for the remainder of $\pi(x)$ is obtained. It is proved that there is an infinite set of the formulae containing miscellaneous parts of this integral.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2011-05-26 Jan Moser

In 1960s, Dana Scott gave a recursion theoretic characterization of standard systems of countable non-standard models of arithmetic, i.e., collections of sets of standard natural numbers coded in non-standard models. Later, Knight and Nadel…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Wei Wang