Incompleteness theorems via Turing category
Logic
2024-12-19 v1 Logic in Computer Science
Abstract
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 diagonalization argument, from first principles, based in category theory and in a sense analogous to Cantor's original argument. To this end, we categorify the theory G\"odel encodings, which might be of independent interest. In our setup, the G\"odel sentence is computable explicitly by construction even for theories (likely extending to ). In an appendix, we study the relationship of our reframed second incompleteness theorem with arguments of Penrose.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2412.14084,
title = {Incompleteness theorems via Turing category},
author = {Yasha Savelyev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14084},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This also corrects and supersedes 2208.04752