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Countable Ordered Groups and Weihrauch Reducibility

Logic 2025-06-12 v2 Group Theory

Abstract

This paper continues to study the connection between reverse mathematics and Weihrauch reducibility. In particular, we study the problems formed from Maltsev's theorem on the order types of countable ordered groups. Solomon showed that the theorem is equivalent to Π11\mathsf{\Pi_1^1}-CA0\mathsf{CA_0}, the strongest of the big five subsystems of second order arithmetic. We show that the strength of the theorem comes from having a dense linear order without endpoints in its order type. Then, we show that for the related Weihrauch problem to be strong enough to be equivalent to WF^\mathsf{\hat{WF}} (the analog problem of Π11\mathsf{\Pi_1^1}-CA0\mathsf{CA_0}), an order-preserving function is necessary in the output. Without the order-preserving function, the problems are very much to the side compared to analog problems of the big five.

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@article{arxiv.2409.19229,
  title  = {Countable Ordered Groups and Weihrauch Reducibility},
  author = {Ang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.19229},
  year   = {2025}
}
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