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Neutrally Expandable Models of Arithmetic

Logic 2021-06-07 v1

Abstract

A subset of a model of PA{\sf PA} is called neutral if it does not change the dcl\mathrm{dcl} relation. A model with undefinable neutral classes is called neutrally expandable. We study the existence and non-existence of neutral sets in various models of PA{\sf PA}. We show that cofinal extensions of prime models are neutrally expandable, and ω1\omega_1-like neutrally expandable models exist, while no recursively saturated model is neutrally expandable. We also show that neutrality is not a first-order property. In the last section, we study a local version of neutral expandability.

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@article{arxiv.1712.06503,
  title  = {Neutrally Expandable Models of Arithmetic},
  author = {Athar Abdul-Quader and Roman Kossak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.06503},
  year   = {2021}
}
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