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I know little to nothing about second-order arithmetic and its subsystems. However, I would like to understand when a model of (a subsystem of) second-order arithmetic ($\mathsf{Z}_2$) is downward ...

Let $Z_2^-$ be the 2nd order Peano arithmetic without the schema of Countable Choice. It has been known, since 1960s at least, that $ZFC^-$ (without the power set) admits an interpretation in $Z_2$ ...

In the paper Partition theorems for systems of finite subsets of integers, Pudlák and Rödl show a Ramsey-type result. The main feature of this result is that the sizes of sets in such systems are not ...