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Goodstein's argument is essentially that the hereditary representation m_{[b]} of any given natural number m in the natural number base b can be mirrored in Cantor Arithmetic, and used to well-define a finite decreasing sequence of…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2011-04-21 Bhupinder Singh Anand

Recently it was shown that it is undecidable whether a term rewrite system can be proved terminating by a polynomial interpretation in the natural numbers. In this paper we show that this is also the case when restricting the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Fabian Mitterwallner , Aart Middeldorp , René Thiemann

Given a strong limit cardinal $\lambda$ of countable cofinality, we show that if every $\lambda$-coanalytic subset of the generalised Cantor space ${}^{\lambda}2$ has the $\lambda$-$\mathsf{PSP}$, then there is an inner model with…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Fernando Barrera , Vincenzo Dimonte , Sandra Müller

We give a reframing of Godel's first and second incompleteness theorems that applies even to some undefinable theories of arithmetic. The usual Hilbert-Bernays provability conditions and the diagonal lemma are replaced by a more direct…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-19 Yasha Savelyev

G\"odel proved in the 1930s in his famous Incompleteness Theorems that not all statements in mathematics can be proven or disproven from the accepted ZFC axioms. A few years later he showed the celebrated result that Cantor's Continuum…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Sandra Müller , Grigor Sargsyan

We find new "reasons" for a class of models for not having a universal model in a cardinal $\lambda$. This work, though it has consequences in model theory, is really in combinatorial set theory. We concentrate on a prototypical class which…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Saharon Shelah

In previous papers on this project a general static logical framework for formalizing and mechanizing set theories of different strength was suggested, and the power of some predicatively acceptable theories in that framework was explored.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Arnon Avron , Liron Cohen

In this paper, for a given family of constraints and the classical Cantor distribution we determine the constrained optimal sets of $n$-points, $n$th constrained quantization errors for all positive integers $n$. We also calculate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Megha Pandey , Mrinal Kanti Roychowdhury

We reconsider some classical natural semantics of integers (namely iterators of functions, cardinals of sets, index of equivalence relations), in the perspective of Kolmogorov complexity. To each such semantics one can attach a simple…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Marie Ferbus-Zanda , Serge Grigorieff

We give an example of a countable theory T such that for every cardinal lambda >= aleph_2 there is a fully indiscernible set A of power lambda such that the principal types are dense over A, yet there is no atomic model of T over A. In…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Michael C. Laskowski , Saharon Shelah

We show that the decidability of the first-order theory of the language that combines Boolean algebras of sets of uninterpreted elements with Presburger arithmetic operations. We thereby disprove a recent conjecture that this theory is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Viktor Kuncak , Martin Rinard

A subset of the Cantor cube is null-additive if its algebraic sum with any null set is null. We construct a set of cardinality continuum such that: all continuous images of the set into the Cantor cube are null-additive, it contains a…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-08 Piotr Szewczak , Tomasz Weiss

Let $C$ be the middle-third Cantor set. We show that \[\left\{\frac{1}{n!}: n\in\mathbb{N}\right\}\cap C=\left\{1, \frac{1}{5!}\right\}.\] This answers a question recently posed by Jiang [J. Lond. Math. Soc., 2026, published online]. Our…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Kehao Lin , Yufeng Wu , Siyu Yang

Schmidt games and the Cantor winning property give alternative notions of largeness, similar to the more standard notions of measure and category. Being intuitive, flexible, and applicable to recent research made them an active object of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Dzmitry Badziahin , Stephen Harrap , Erez Nesharim , David Simmons

A 1910 theorem of Brouwer characterizes the Cantor set as the unique totally disconnected, compact metric space without isolated points. A 1920 theorem of Sierpinski characterizes the rationals as the unique countable metric space without…

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-10-04 Michael Francis

We prove in constructive logic that the statement of the Cantor-Bernstein theorem implies excluded middle. This establishes that the Cantor-Bernstein theorem can only be proven assuming the full power of classical logic. The key ingredient…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-24 Cécilia Pradic , Chad E. Brown

Disjunctive Linear Arithmetic (DLA) is a major decidable theory that is supported by almost all existing theorem provers. The theory consists of Boolean combinations of predicates of the form $\Sigma_{j=1}^{n}a_j\cdot x_j \le b$, where the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ofer Strichman

The existence of two different Cantor sets, one of them contained in the set of Liouville numbers and the other one inside the set of Diophantine numbers, is proved. Finally, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Borys Álvarez-Samaniego , Wilson P. Álvarez-Samaniego , Jonathan Ortiz-Castro

In our work, we provide a constructive proof of a generalized version of Cantor's diagonal argument for nets. This result expands the well-known technique beyond sequences, allowing it to be applied to a broader context. This result has…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Youssef Azouzi

A digraph $D=\langle V,E\rangle$ ($E\subset V\times V$) is Cantor if Cantor's theorem - for no set there is a surjection from it to its power set - holds in $D$, in the sense we explain. We construct a ZF formula $\varphi$ with length $494$…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Martin Klazar
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