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A tame Cantor set

Logic 2016-05-04 v2

Abstract

A Cantor set is a non-empty, compact set that has neither interior nor isolated points. In this paper a Cantor set KRK\subseteq \mathbb{R} is constructed such that every set definable in (R,<,+,,K)(\mathbb{R},<,+,\cdot,K) is Borel. In addition, we prove quantifier-elimination and completeness results for (R,<,+,,K)(\mathbb{R},<,+,\cdot,K), making the set KK the first example of a modeltheoretically tame Cantor set. This answers questions raised by Friedman, Kurdyka, Miller and Speissegger. The work in this paper depends crucially on results about automata on infinite words, in particular B\"uchi's celebrated theorem on the monadic second-order theory of one successor and McNaughton's theorem on Muller automata, which had never been used in the setting of expansions of the real field.

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@article{arxiv.1507.03201,
  title  = {A tame Cantor set},
  author = {Philipp Hieronymi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.03201},
  year   = {2016}
}
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