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How to locate the paper that established Robinson Arithmetic?
If I'm not mistaken, it was in his seminal paper “An Essentially Undecidable Axiom System”, published in
Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians (1950), 1952:729–730,
where R.M. ...
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Does the totality of Ackermann's function prove the consistency of $\Sigma_1$-induction?
It is well known that Ackermann's function is not primitive recursive. Therefore, the theories of primitive recursive arithmetic (PRA) and of $\Sigma_1$-induction ($I\Sigma_1$) cannot prove the ...
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Does ACA prove categoricity of the reals?
$\def\f#1{\text{#1}}$Does $\f{ACA}$ prove that any two internally complete ordered fields are isomorphic?
Here internal completeness is expressed roughly as "every sequence of reals with an upper ...
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Derivability conditions for Robinson arithmetic
Two pieces of hearsay I have encountered about Robinson's Q:
Q fails to satisfy the Löb derivability conditions;
Pudlák criticised the Löb derivability conditions and suggested rival, weaker ...
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$\Pi^0_1$ sentences modulo "schematic entailment"
Let $\mathfrak{P}$ be the preorder of $\Delta^0_0$ (= only bounded quantifiers) formulas with one free variable in the language of arithmetic, under the relation $\alpha(x)\le\beta(x)$ iff there is a ...
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