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Enayat Models of Peano Arithmetic

Logic 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

Simpson showed that every countable model MPA\mathcal{M} \models \mathsf{PA} has an expansion (M,X)PA(\mathcal{M}, X) \models \mathsf{PA}^* that is pointwise definable. A natural question is whether, in general, one can obtain expansions of a non-prime model in which the definable elements coincide with those of the underlying model. Enayat showed that this is impossible by proving that there is MPA\mathcal{M} \models \mathsf{PA} such that for each undefinable class XX of M\mathcal{M}, the expansion (M,X)(\mathcal{M}, X) is pointwise definable. We call models with this property Enayat models. In this paper, we study Enayat models and show that a model of PA\mathsf{PA} is Enayat if it is countable, has no proper cofinal submodels and is a conservative extension of all of its elementary cuts. We then show that, for any countable linear order γ\gamma, if there is a model M\mathcal{M} such that Lt(M)γ\mathrm{Lt}(\mathcal{M}) \cong \gamma, then there is an Enayat model M\mathcal{M} such that Lt(M)γ\mathrm{Lt}(\mathcal{M}) \cong \gamma.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1709.07829,
  title  = {Enayat Models of Peano Arithmetic},
  author = {Athar Abdul-Quader},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07829},
  year   = {2019}
}
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