On Guaspari's problem about partially conservative sentences
Abstract
We investigate sentences which are simultaneously partially conservative over several theories. First, we generalize Bennet's results on this topic to the case of more than two theories. In particular, for any finite family of consistent r.e. extensions of Peano Arithmetic, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a sentence which is unprovable in and -conservative over for all . Secondly, we prove that for any finite family of such theories, there exists a sentence which is simultaneously unprovable and -conservative over each of these theories. This constitutes a positive solution to a particular case of Guaspari's problem. Finally, we demonstrate several non-implications among related properties of families of theories.
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@article{arxiv.1909.02761,
title = {On Guaspari's problem about partially conservative sentences},
author = {Taishi Kurahashi and Yuya Okawa and V. Yu. Shavrukov and Albert Visser},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02761},
year = {2022}
}
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27 pages