Questions tagged [realizability]
Realizability is a collection of methods in proof theory used to study constructive proofs and extract additional information from them.
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Computability-theoretic results relevant to realizability
This may be a very naive question which only reflects my failure at literature search, but:
Although realizability (in its original form at least) is grounded in computability, the details of ...
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Kleene realizability in Peano arithmetic
For completeness of MathOverflow and for clarity of the question, I will first recall a few things, including the the definition of Kleene realizability: experts can jump directly to the question ...
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How is this HA unprovable formula recursive realizable?
In Realizability: A Historical Essay [Jaap van Oosten, 2002], it is said that recursive realizability and HA provability do not concur, because although every HA provable closed formula is realizable, ...
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Did Kleene constructively prove Brouwer's axioms?
Harvey Friedman's request on the FoM-forum for an overview of current intuitionistic foundations revived the following question, which I have been meaning to ask for five years. (I'm no expert on ...
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A polytime feasible subuniverse of the Effective Topos
The effective topos is a well known universe of sets suitable for abstract computability, as it is build "from the ground up" via the classical notion of realisability by Kleene.
I have found a few ...
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Why is Kleene's notion of computability better than Banach-Mazur's?
In this post about the difference between the recursive and effective topos, Andrej Bauer said:
If you are looking for a deeper explanation, then perhaps it is fair to say that the Recursive Topos ...
