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Inspired by Gentzen's 1936 consistency proof, Goodstein found a close fit between descending sequences of ordinals epsilon_0 and sequences of integers, now known as Goodstein sequences. This article revisits Goodstein's 1944 paper. In light…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Michael Rathjen

Building on Buchholz' assignment for ordinals below Bachmann-Howard ordinal, see Buchholz 2003, we introduce systems of fundamental sequences for two kinds of relativized $\vartheta$-function-based notation systems of strength…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Gunnar Wilken

In arXiv:2508.14768, a variant of Goodstein's original process was recently introduced which, given a set $B\subseteq \mathbb{N}$ of bases, writes each $n\in\mathbb{N}$ in $B$-normal form, namely $n=b^ea+r$, where $b\in B$ the greatest base…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-03-23 David Fernández-Duque , Milan Morreel , Andreas Weiermann

The classical Goodstein process, defined via hereditary base-$k$ exponential normal form, is a well-known example of a principle unprovable in Peano Arithmetic. In this paper, we generalize this framework by constructing a new Goodstein…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Oriola Gjetaj , Andreas Weiermann

We present variants of Goodstein's theorem that are equivalent to arithmetical comprehension and to arithmetical transfinite recursion, respectively, over a weak base theory. These variants differ from the usual Goodstein theorem in that…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Juan P. Aguilera , Anton Freund , Michael Rathjen , Andreas Weiermann

Goodstein's principle is arguably the first purely number-theoretic statement known to be independent of Peano arithmetic. It involves sequences of natural numbers which at first appear to grow very quickly, but eventually decrease to zero.…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-05 David Fernández-Duque , Andreas Weiermann

The object of this paper is to generalize a theorem on the binomial coefficient [4] to the case in an arithmetic progression. We will also give a slightly stronger result than Langevin's [2].

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2009-09-15 Shaohua Zhang

In the late 1980s, Abrusci, Girard and van de Wiele defined a variant of Goodstein sequences: the so-called inverse Goodstein sequence. In their work, they show that it terminates precisely at the Bachmann-Howard ordinal. This reveals that…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Patrick Uftring

Dependence logic provides an elegant approach for introducing dependencies between variables into the object language of first-order logic. In [1] generalized quantifiers were introduced in this context. However, a satisfactory account was…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Fredrik Engström

We develop the abstract framework for a proof-theoretic analysis of theories with scope beyond ordinal numbers, resulting in an analog of Ordinal Analysis aimed at the study of theorems of complexity $\Pi^1_2$. This is done by replacing the…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-27 Juan P. Aguilera , Fedor Pakhomov

The most general change of variables theorem for the Riemann integral of functions of a single variable has been published in 1961 (by Kestelman). In this theorem, the substitution is made by an `indefinite integral', that is, by a function…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2008-04-16 Zoltán Molnár , Ilona Nagy , Tivadar Szilágyi

The main result includes as special cases on the one hand, the Gerstenhaber--Rothaus theorem (1962) and its generalisation due to Nitsche and Thom (2022) and, on the other hand, the Brodskii--Howie--Short theorem (1980--1984) generalising…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-11 Anton A. Klyachko , Mikhail A. Mikheenko

We develop a version of Cichon's diagram for cardinal invariants on the generalized Cantor space 2^kappa or the generalized Baire space kappa^kappa where kappa is an uncountable regular cardinal. For strongly inaccessible kappa, many of the…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Joerg Brendle , Andrew Brooke-Taylor , Sy-David Friedman , Diana Montoya

Goodman's theorem (1976) states that intuitionistic finite-type arithmetic plus the axiom of choice plus the axiom of relativized dependent choice is conservative over Heyting arithmetic. The same result applies to the extensional variant.…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Emanuele Frittaion

In this short note we have proved an enhanced version of a theorem of Lorentz [1] and its generalization to the multivariate case which gives a non- uniform estimate of degree of approximation by a polynomial with positive coefficients. The…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Zhong Guan , Tao Wang

For each positive integer $n$, function $f$, and point $c$, the GGR Theorem states that $f$ is $n$ times Peano differentiable at $c$ if and only if $f$ is $n-1$ times Peano differentiable at $c$ and the following $n$-th generalized…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-11-18 S. Catoiu , H. Fejzic

We introduce generalized quantifiers, as defined in Tarskian semantics by Mostowski and Lindstr\"om, in logics whose semantics is based on teams instead of assignments, e.g., IF-logic and Dependence logic. Both the monotone and the…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Fredrik Engström

According to the Weinstein splitting theorem, any Poisson manifold is locally, near any given point, a product of a symplectic manifold with another Poisson manifold whose Poisson structure vanishes at the point. Similar splitting results…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Henrique Bursztyn , Hudson Lima , Eckhard Meinrenken

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

In this note let us give two remarks on proof-theory of PA. First a derivability relation is introduced to bound witnesses for provable $\Sigma_{1}$-formulas in PA. Second Paris-Harrington's proof for their independence result is…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Toshiyasu Arai
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