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Surreals and NSA: some foundational issues

Problem 1: There is a definable proper class saturated real-closed field $\mathbb{R}^*$, defined by a slight modification of your and Shelah's construction, such that there is an $\mathrm{OD}_p$ ...
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Finitistic interpretation of Nelson's internal set theory

Building on work by Benno van den Berg et al, the quantifiers $(\forall^{st}x)$ and $(\exists^{st}x)$ can be interpreted as "for all computationally relevant objects $x$" and "there ...
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Do the surreal numbers enjoy the transfer principle in ZFC?

A partial answer to the focused question: it's not provable in ZFC that there is an OD class $\mathbb{Z}^*$ such that $(\mathbb{R}, +, \cdot, \mathbb{Z}) \equiv (\mathrm{No}, +, \cdot, \mathbb{Z}^*).$ ...
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Do the surreal numbers enjoy the transfer principle in ZFC?

In $\mathsf{ZFC}$ if any two proper class models of the theory of an infinite set are isomorphic, then global choice holds. This is because $V$ and $\mathrm{Ord}$ are both models of this theory and an ...
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In hyperreal field, can ln(ε) and ln(ω) be expressed as infinite sums?

I will propose an answer my question. Please let me know if I have spoken accurately. Within the hyperreal field (that is, the most traditional hyperreal field as described by some of the original ...
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In hyperreal field, can ln(ε) and ln(ω) be expressed as infinite sums?

To help avoid any misunderstanding that may arise for readers of this question, let me say that when understood in the usual sense, there are no nontrivial convergent sequences or series at all in the ...
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In hyperreal field, can ln(ε) and ln(ω) be expressed as infinite sums?

For positive $\epsilon$, the expression $\ln \epsilon$ will be equal to its power series at $x=1$ (in the $\delta, N$ sense). To help avoid any misunderstanding that may arise for readers of this ...
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