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Sidney Raffer
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Ultimate limits of Tennenbaum's Theorem

This is version 2 of a question about the ultimate limits of Tennenbaum's Theorem. The attempt to find these limits by moving up the induction heirarchy, as in Wilmer's Theorem, seems somehow indecisive. I suggested that maybe there is a Theory $T$ extending open induction such that

  1. $T$ has a recursively presentable nonstandard model.

  2. If the sentence $\phi$ is not provable from $T$, then $T+\phi$ has no recursively presentable nonstandard model.

François G. Dorais immediately replied that this just amounts to $T$ being complete.

So... What about asking for the maximum $n$ such that the theory of all true (in the integers) all-2 sentences with n existential quantifiers has a recursive nonstandard model? What is known about this? Is it known that $n<2$?

Sidney Raffer
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