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Are the natural powers of two conservatively embedded in $\mathbb{C}$?

This is a followup to this question. Consider $\mathbb{C}$ as a structure - in the sense of first-order logic - with the graphs of addition and multiplication. Let $\mathcal{X}$ be the substructure wi …
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Can $\mathbb{C}$ have a "doppelganger" in $L(\mathbb{R})$ with countable automorphism group?

Working in $\mathsf{ZFC}$ + large cardinals (a proper class of Woodins, to be precise), is there a field $F\in L(\mathbb{R})$ such that $V\models F\cong\mathbb{C}$ and $L(\mathbb{R})\models\vert\mathi …
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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 whos …
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Weakly compact cardinals in $L$: how long do branches take to appear?

Throughout, we work in $\mathsf{ZFC+V=L+}$ "There is a weakly compact cardinal," $\kappa$ is the first weakly compact cardinal and "tree" means "subtree of $2^{<\kappa}$ of height $\kappa$" Despite t …
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What oracles make finding isomorphism (of finite structures) easy?

Below, all structures are finite, in a finite language, with underlying set an initial segment of the natural numbers. This has been edited to fix errors pointed out by Emil Jerabek in his answer belo …
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Can we computably escape infinitely many functions (allowing partiality)?

Let $(p_i)_{i\in\omega}$ be a uniformly computable sequence of partial functions (i.e. the partial function $q(i,x)=p_i(x)$ is computable) such that infinitely many $p_i$s are total. Must there be a …
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Can the differential field of d.c.e. reals be nicely construed as a field of functions?

This question is basically a special case of this older question of mine, which is still unanswered. Let $\mathcal{D}$ be the field of d.c.e. reals; these turn out to be exactly the reals $\alpha$ for …
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Can the canonical Eudoxus-real representatives be defined easily?

(See e.g. here for background on the Eudoxus reals, which motivates this question.) Let $\mathcal{Z}=(\mathbb{Z};+,<)$. Say that a Eudoxus function is an $f:\mathbb{Z}\rightarrow\mathbb{Z}$ such that …
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Läuchli's "intermediate thing"

On page 230 of An abstract notion of realizability ..., Läuchli writes the following: If we drop the restrictions put on $\Theta$, then we get classical logic in one case and an intermediate thing in …
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$L(\mathbb{R})$-absoluteness from a proper class of Woodins: source?

For a paper I'm writing I need to use (as a blackbox) the following theorem: if there is a proper class of Woodin cardinals and $G$ is set-generic, then $L(\mathbb{R})$ and $L(\mathbb{R})^{V[G]}$ are …
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Are there any non-conjugation "extendible automorphisms" in the category of finite groups?

Let $\mathbf{Grp}$ be the category of groups. Given a subcategory $\mathscr{G}$ of $\mathbf{Grp}$ and $G\in\mathit{Ob}(\mathscr{G})$, a $\mathscr{G}$-extendible map on $G$ will here mean an assignment …
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Decidably clarifying ordinals

For a computable$^*$ ordinal $\alpha$ (viewed as an $\{<\}$-structure), say that a first-order sentence $\sigma$ in a relational language $\Sigma\supseteq \{<\}$ decidably clarifies $\alpha$ iff $\alp …
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Which pseudovarieties have (Eilenberg/Schutzenberger) minimal descriptions?

Suppose $\mathscr{V}$ is a pseudovariety in a countable language $\Sigma$. Say that a minimal description of $\mathscr{V}$ (in the sense of Eilenberg/Schutzenberger rather than Reiterman) is a pair $( …
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Counting Eilenberg/Schutzenberger-type definitions of pseudovarieties

See Eilenberg/Schutzenberger, On pseudovarieties for background on pseudovarieties. I've phrased things in terms of pairs-of-sets to avoid some annoying language about multisets. Also, I'm aware that …
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Comparing semiring of formulas and Lindenbaum algebra

This is motivationally related to an earlier question of mine. Given a first-order theory $T$, let $\widehat{D}(T)$ be the semiring defined as follows: Elements of $\widehat{D}(T)$ are equivalence c …
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