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On mathstackexchange a few days ago I published the following question where I asked about "transfinite" sum and products but actually nobody answered or gave an opinion with a comment: thus ...

Recall that a set $A \subseteq \mathbb N$ is (many-one, Turing) $\Sigma_n$-complete if it's $\Sigma_n$ and any other $\Sigma_n$ set (many-one, Turing) reduces to it. This definition actually makes ...

The monadic theory of the real line is the set of all sentences in the monadic second-order language of order which are true in $\mathbb{R}$. In this 1982 paper, Gurevich and Shelah show that true ...

Following some of the coolest bits of Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, extensions of the standard model of arithmetic are described. A ways in, the paragraph "Supernatural Addition and Multiplication"...

Let ZFC$^{\text{fin}}$ be ZFC minus the axiom of infinity plus the negation of the axiom of infinity. It is well-known that ZFC$^{\text{fin}}$ is biinterpretable with Peano Arithmetic. In this sense ...

The question has relevance for constructing Scott sets with certain extra desirable properties. Suppose that $\mathfrak X$ is a countable arithmetically closed family of subsets of $\mathbb N$: ...