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Is there a decidable theory of arithmetic with a non-collapsing quantifier hierarchy?

This question is very close to this old MSE question of mine, which is still unanswered. Is there an (ideally reasonably-natural!) expansion of the structure $(\mathbb{N};+)$ in a finite language ...
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Computable nonstandard models for weak systems of arithmetic

By Tennenbaum's theorem, PA itself does not have any computable nonstandard models. The integer polynomials which are 0 or have a positive leading coefficient form a computable nonstandard model of ...
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