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An incomplete nonnormal extension of S3
Authors: Schumm George F.
Published: May 2006

Fine [1] and Thomason [4] have recently shown that the familiar relational semantics of Kripke [2] is inadequate for certain normal extensions of T and S4. It is here shown that the more general semantics developed by Kripke in [3] to handle nonnormal modal logics is likewise inadequate for certain of those logics.

The interest of incompleteness results, such as those of Fine and Thomason, is of course a function of one's expectations. Define a “normal” logic too broadly and it is not surprising that a given semantics is not adequate for all normal logics. In the case of relational semantics, for example, one would want to require at least that a normal logic contain T, the logic determined by the class of all normal frames, and that it be closed under certain (though perhaps not all) rules of inference which are validity preserving in such frames. The adequacy of that semantics will otherwise be ruled out at the outset.

For Kripke a logic is normal if it contains all tautologies, □p→p and □ (p → q)→(□p → □q), and is closed under the rules of substitution, modus ponens and necessitation (from A infer □A). T is the smallest normal logic, and this fact, together with the “naturalness” of the definition and the enormous number of normal logics which have been shown to be complete, made it plausible to suppose that Kripke's original semantics was adequate for all normal logics. That it is not is indeed surprising and would seem to reveal a genuine shortcoming.
String theory
Authors: Corcoran John , Frank William , Maloney Michael
Published: May 2006

For eachn> 0, two alternative axiomatizations of the theory of strings overnalphabetic characters are presented. One class of axiomatizations derives from Tarski's system of theWahrheitsbegriffand uses thencharacters and concatenation as primitives. The other class involves usingncharacter-prefixing operators as primitives and derives from Hermes'Semiotik. All underlying logics are second order. It is shown that, for eachn, the two theories are synonymous in the sense of deBouvere. It is further shown that each member of one class is synonymous with each member of the other class; thus that all of the theories are synonymous with each other and with Peano arithmetic. Categoricity of Peano arithmetic then implies categoricity of each of the above theories.
Cores of Π11 sets of reals
Authors: Blass Andreas , Cenzer Douglas
Published: May 2006

A classical result of descriptive set theory expresses every co-analytic subset of the real line as the union of an increasing sequence of Borel sets, the length of the chain being at most the first uncountable ordinal ℵ1 (see [5], [8]). An effective analog of this theorem, obtained by replacing co-analytic (Π11) and Borel (Δ11) with their lightface analogs, would represent every Π11 subset of the real line as the union of a chain of Δ11 sets. No such analog is true, however, because some Δ11 sets are not the union of their Δ11 subsets. For example, the set W, consisting of those reals which code well-orderings (in some standard coding) is Π11, but, by the boundedness principle ([3], [9]), any Δ11 subset of W contains codes only for well-orderings shorter than ω1, the first nonrecursive ordinal. Accordingly, we define the core of a Π11 set to be the union of its Δ11 subsets; clearly this is the largest subset of the given Π11 set for which an effective version of the classical representation could exist.

In §1, we develop the elementary properties of cores of Π11 sets. For example, such a core is itself Π11 and can be represented as the union of a chain of Δ11 sets in a natural way; the chain will have length at most ω1. We show that the core of a Π11 set is “almost all” of the set, while on the other hand there are uncountable Π11 sets with empty cores.
An ω1-categorical ring which is not almost strongly minimal
Authors: Podewski K.-P. , Reineke J.
Published: May 2006

A very important example of almost strongly minimal theories are the algebraically closed fields. A. Macintyre has shown [3] that every ω1-categorical field is algebraically closed. Therefore every ω1-categorical field is almost strongly minimal. It will be shown that not every ω1-categorical ring is almost strongly minimal.

Let R0 be the factor ring C[y/(y2), where C[y] is the ring of polynomials in the indeterminate y over the field of complex numbers and (y2) the ideal generated by y2 in C[y].

It is straightforward to prove that R0 has the following properties:

1. R0 is a commutative ring with identity.

2. R0 is of characteristic 0.

3. For every polynomial p(x) = ∑ a1x1 ∈ R0[x] with of ai2 ≠ 0 for some i > 0 there is an a ∈ R0 such that p(a) · p(a) = 0.

4. For all x, y ∈ R0 such that x2 = 0 and y ≠ 0 there exists a z ∈ R0 with y · z = x.

5. There is an x ≠ 0 such that x2 = 0.

These properties can be ∀∃-axiomatised in a countable first order logic (see [4]). Let T be the set of these sentences. With Theorem 7 we get that T is model-complete.

If R is a model of T then I shall denote {a ∈ R ∣ a2 = 0}.
On subcreative sets and S-reducibility
Authors: Gill John T. , Morris Paul H.
Published: May 2006

Subcreative sets, introduced by Blum, are known to coincide with the effectively speedable sets. Subcreative sets are shown to be the complete sets with respect to S-reducibility, a special case of Turing reducibility. Thus a set is effectively speedable exactly when it contains the solution to the halting problem in an easily decodable form. Several characterizations of subcreative sets are given, including the solution of an open problem of Blum, and are used to locate the subcreative sets with respect to the complete sets of other reducibilities. It is shown that q-cylindrification is an order-preserving map from the r.e. T-degrees to the r.e. S-degrees. Consequently, T-complete sets are precisely the r.e. sets whose q-cylindrifications are S-complete.
An α-finite injury method of the unbounded type
Authors: Chong C. T.
Published: May 2006

Let α be an admissible ordinal. In this paper we study the structure of the upper semilattice of α-recursively enumerable degrees. Various results about the structure which are of fundamental importance had been obtained during the past two years (Sacks-Simpson [7], Lerman [4], Shore [9]). In particular, the method of finite priority argument of Friedberg and Muchnik was successfully generalized in [7] to an α-finite priority argument to give a solution of Post's problem for all admissible ordinals. We refer the reader to [7] for background material, and we also follow closely the notations used there.

Whereas [7] and [4] study priority arguments in which the number of injuries inflicted on a proper initial segment of requirements can be effectively bounded (Lemma 2.3 of [7]), we tackle here priority arguments in which no such bounds exist. To this end, we focus our attention on the fine structure of Lα, much in the fashion of Jensen [2], and show that we can still use a priority argument on an indexing set of requirements just short enough to give us the necessary bounds we seek.
Generalized interpolation theorems
Authors: Garland Stephen J.
Published: May 2006

Chang [1], [2] has proved the following generalization of the Craig interpolation theorem [3]: For any first-order formulas φ and ψ with free first- and second-order variables among ν1, …, νn, R and ν1, …, νn, S respectively, and for any sequence Q1, …, Qn of quantifiers such that Q1 is universal whenever ν1 is a second-order variable, if

then there is a first-order formula θ with free variables among ν1, …, νn such that

(Note that the Craig interpolation theorem is the special case of Chang's theorem in which Q1, …, Qn are all universal quantifiers.) Chang also raised the question [2, Remark (k)] as to whether the Lopez-Escobar interpolation theorem [6] for the infinitary language Lω1ω possesses a similar generalization. In this paper, we show that the answer to Chang's question is affirmative and, moreover, that several interpolation theorems for applied second-order languages for number theory also possess such generalizations.

Maehara and Takeuti [7] have established independently proof-theoretic interpolation theorems for first-order logic and Lω1ω which have as corollaries both Chang's theorem and its analog for Lω1ω. Our proofs are quite different from theirs and rely on model-theoretic techniques stemming from the analogy between the theory of definability in Lω1ω and the theory of Borel and analytic sets of real numbers, rather than the technique of cut-elimination.
Degrees of continuous functionals
Authors: Hinman Peter G.
Published: May 2006

The partial order structure of degrees of unsolvability represented by continuous type-2 functional is a proper extension of the partial order structure of type-1 degrees.
Borel sets and hyperdegrees
Authors: Friedman Harvey M.
Published: May 2006

This paper is concerned with the hyderdegrees of elements of uncountable Borel subsets of ωω. The Borel subsets of ωω are the so-called Δ11 subsets of ωω, which are the subsets of ωω that are Δ11 in some parameter f: ω → ω.

The results of this paper were inspired by two earlier results about the hyperdegrees of elements of Σ11 subsets of ωω. The first is known as the Gandy basis theorem, and asserts that the collection of functions of strictly lower hyperdegree than the hyperjump form a basis for the Σ11 subsets of ωω (see Rogers [3, p. 421]). The second is that there exists an uncountable Σ11 subset of ωω no element of which is hyperarithmetic in any other. The latter is credited to Feferman in Harrison [1], and appears there as Corollary 2.7, p. 537.

Two questions arise. Can we find other basis theorems if we replace Σ11 by Δ11 in Gandy's result? Can we replace Σ11 by Δ11 in Feferman's result?

We simultaneously answer the first positively, and the second negatively by proving that any hyperdegree, in which the hyperjump is hyperarithmetic, forms a basis for the Δ11 subsets of ωω with no hyperarithmetic elements. We conjecture that this holds also for uncountable Δ11 subsets of ωω. This conjecture is open despite the recent claim in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 19 (1972), p. A616, Abstract 696-02-10.
Algebraically closed commutative rings
Authors: Cherlin G. L.
Published: May 2006

A commutative ring A is said to be algebraically closed if every finite system of polynomial equations and inequations in one or more variables with coefficients in A which has a solution in some (commutative) extension of A already has a solution in A. Abraham Robinson's study of model-theoretic forcing has provided powerful new tools for the study of algebraically closed structures in general, and will be applied here to the study of algebraically closed commutative rings. Familiarity with the model-theoretic notions connected with the study of algebraically closed structures is assumed; for background consult [1], [2], and [3].

Our main results are the following:

1. The theory of commutative rings with identity has no model companion in the sense of Robinson.

2. The Hilbert Nullstellensatz, suitably formulated for the class of algebraically closed commutative rings, holds for finitely generated polynomial ideals but fails for certain infinitely generated polynomial ideals.

3. If A is algebraically closed, then A/rad A need not be algebraically closed as a semiprime ring: If A is finitely generic then A/rad A is algebraically closed as a semiprime ring, but if A is infinitely generic then A/rad A is not algebraically closed as a semiprime ring.
Recursively enumerable generic sets
Authors: Maass Wolfgang
Published: May 2006

We show that one can solve Post's Problem by constructing generic sets in the usual set theoretic framework applied to tiny universes. This method leads to a new class of recursively enumerable sets: r.e. generic sets. All r.e. generic sets are low and simple and therefore of Turing degree strictly between 0 and 0′. Further they supply the first example of a class of low recursively enumerable sets which are automorphic in the lattice ℰ of recursively enumerable sets with inclusion. We introduce the notion of a promptly simple set. This describes the essential feature of r.e. generic sets with respect to automorphism constructions.
Models of arithmetic and closed ideals
Authors: Knight Julia , Nadel Mark
Published: May 2006

A set J of Turing degrees is called an ideal if (1) J ≠ ∅, (2) for any pair of degrees ã, , if ã, ϵ J, then ã ⋃ ϵJ, and (3) for any ⋃ ϵ J and any , if < ⋃, then ϵ J. A set J of degrees is said to be closed if for any theory T with a set of axioms of degree in J, T has a completion of degree in J.

Closed ideals of degrees arise naturally in the following way. If is a recursively saturated structure, let I() = { for some ā ϵ }. Let D() = {: is recursive in d-saturated}. (Recursive in d-saturation is defined like recursive saturation except that the sets of formulas considered are recursive in d.) These two sets of degrees were investigated in [2]. It was shown that if is a recursively saturated model of P, Pr = Th(ω, +), or Pr′ = Th(Z, +, 1), then I() = D(), and this set is a closed ideal. Any closed ideal J can be represented as I() = D() for some recursively saturated model of Pr′. For sets J of power at most ℵ1, Pr′ can be replaced by P.

Assuming CH, all closed ideals have power at most ℵ1, but if CH fails, there are closed ideals of power greater than ℵ1, and it is not known whether these can be represented as I() = D() for a recursively saturated model of P.

In the present paper, it will first be shown that information about representation of closed ideals provides new information about an old problem of MacDowell and Specker [6] and extends an old result of Scott [8] in a natural way. It will also be shown that the representation results from [2] answer a problem of Friedman [1]. This part of the paper is aimed at convincing the reader that representation problems are worth investigating.
Σ1-separation
Authors: Abramson Fred G.
Published: May 2006

Let A be a standard transitive admissible set. Σ1-separation is the principle that whenever X and Y are disjoint Σ1A subsets of A then there is a ⊿1A subset S of A such that X ⊆ S and Y ∩ S = ∅.

Theorem. If satisfies Σ-separation, then

(1) If 〈Tn∣n < ω) ϵ A is a sequence of trees on ω each of which has at most finitely many infinite paths in A then the function n ↦ (set of infinite paths in A through Tn) is in A.

(2) If A is not closed under hyperjump and α = OnA then A has in it a nonstandard model of V = L whose ordinal standard part is α.

Theorem. Let α be any countable admissible ordinal greater than ω. Then there is a model of Σ1-separation whose height is α.
Recursion theory on orderings. I. A model theoretic setting
Authors: Metakides G. , Remmel J.B.
Published: May 2006

In [6], Metakides and Nerode introduced the study of the lattice of recursively enumerable substructures of a recursively presented model as a means to understand the recursive content of certain algebraic constructions. For example, the lattice of recursively enumerable subspaces,, of a recursively presented vector spaceV∞has been studied by Kalantari, Metakides and Nerode, Retzlaff, Remmel and Shore. Similar studies have been done by Remmel [12], [13] for Boolean algebras and by Metakides and Nerode [9] for algebraically closed fields. In all of these models, the algebraic closure of a set is nontrivial. (The formal definition of the algebraic closure of a setS, denoted cl(S), is given in §1, however in vector spaces, cl(S) is just the subspace generated byS, in Boolean algebras, cl(S) is just the subalgebra generated byS, and in algebraically closed fields, cl(S) is just the algebraically closed subfield generated byS.)

In this paper, we give a general model theoretic setting (whose precise definition will be given in §1) in which we are able to give constructions which generalize many of the constructions of classical recursion theory. One of the main features of the modelswhich we study is that the algebraic closure of setis just itself, i.e., cl(S) = S. Examples of such models include the natural numbers under equality 〈N, = 〉, the rational numbers under the usual ordering 〈Q, ≤〉, and a large class ofn-dimensional partial orderings.
Notes on the stability of separably closed fields
Authors: Wood Carol
Published: May 2006

The stability of each of the theories of separably closed fields is proved, in the manner of Shelah's proof of the corresponding result for differentially closed fields. These are at present the only known stable but not superstable theories of fields. We indicate in §3 how each of the theories of separably closed fields can be associated with a model complete theory in the language of differential algebra. We assume familiarity with some basic facts about model completeness [4], stability [7], separably closed fields [2] or [3], and (for §3 only) differential fields [8].
On definition trees of ordinal recursive functionals: Reduction of the recursion orders by means of type level raising
Authors: Terlouw Jan
Published: May 2006

It is known that every < ε0-recursive function is also a primitive recursive functional. Kreisel has proved this by means of Gödel's functional-interpretation, using that every < ε0-recursive function is provably recursive in Heyting's arithmetic [2, §3.4]. Parsons obtained a refinement of Kreisel's result by a further examination of Gödel's interpretation with regard to type levels [3, Theorem 5], [4, §4]. A quite different proof is provided by the research into extensions of the Grzegorczyk hierarchy as done by Schwichtenberg and Wainer: this yields another characterization of the < ε0-recursive functions from which easily appears that these are primitive recursive functionals (see [5] in combination with [6, Chapter II]).

However, these proofs are indirect and do not show how, in general, given a definition tree of an ordinal recursive functional, transfinite recursions can be replaced (in a straightforward way) by recursions over wellorderings of lower order types. The argument given by Tait in [9, pp. 189–191] seems to be an improvement in this respect, but the crucial step in it is (at least in my opinion) not very clear.
AD and the supercompactness of ℵ1
Authors: Becker Howard
Published: May 2006

Since the discovery of forcing in the early sixties, it has been clear that many natural and interesting mathematical questions are not decidable from the classical axioms of set theory, ZFC. Therefore some mathematicians have been studying the consequences of stronger set theoretic assumptions. Two new types of axioms that have been the subject of much research are large cardinal axioms and axioms asserting the determinacy of definable games. The two appear at first glance to be unrelated; one of the most surprising discoveries of recent research is that this is not the case.

In this paper we will be assuming the axiom of determinacy (AD) plus the axiom of dependent choice (DC). AD is false, since it contradicts the axiom of choice. However every set in L[R] is ordinal definable from a real. Our axiom that definable games are determined implies that every game in L[R] is determined (in V), and since a strategy is a real, it is determined in L[R]. That is, L[R] ⊨ AD. The axiom of choice implies L[R] ⊨ DC. So by embedding ourselves in L[R], we can assume AD + DC and begin proving theorems. These theorems true in L[R] imply corresponding theorems in V, by e.g. changing “every set” to “every set in L[R]”. For more information on AD as an axiom, and on some of the points touched on here, the reader should consult [14], particularly §§7D and 8I. In this paper L[R] will no longer even be mentioned. We just assume AD for the rest of the paper.
On the interpolation theorem for the logic of constant domains
Authors: López-Escobar E. G. K.
Published: May 2006

In Gabbay [1] it is stated as an open problem whether or not Craig's Theorem holds for the logic of constant domains CD, i.e. for the extension of the intuitionistic predicate calculus, IPC, obtained by adding the schema; . Then in the later article, [2], Gabbay gives a proof of it. The proof given in [2] is via Robinson's (weak) consistency theorem and depends on relatively complicated (Kripke-) model-theoretical constructions developed in [1] (see p. 392 of [1] for a brief sketch of the method). The aim of this note is to show that the interpolation theorem for CD can also be obtained, by simple proof-theoretic methods, from §80 of Kleene's Introduction to Metamathematics [3].

GI is the classical formal system whose postulates are given on p. 442 of [3]. Let GD be the system obtained from GI by the following modifications: (1) the sequents of GD are to have at most two formulas in their succedents and (2) the intuitionistic restriction that Θ be empty is required for the succedent rules (→ ¬) and (→ ⊃). It is a simple matter to show that: , x not free in . It then follows that, using Theorem 46 of [3], if then .
The continuum hypothesis in intuitionism
Authors: Gielen W. , de Swart H. , Veldman W.
Published: May 2006

Although Brouwer became famous for his vehement attacks upon classical logic and set theory, his work did not develop in a vacuum and strongly depended on that of Cantor.

His mind bent on shifting aside nonconstructive arguments, he tried to rebuild Cantor's edifice along new, intuitionistic lines. The continuum hypothesis, lying at the core of set theory, also confronted Brouwer, and he had to face the farthest conclusion Cantor had been able to reach in trying to solve it: every nondenumerable closed subset of the real line has the power of the continuum.

Brouwer's thinking about it seems to have been subject to some development. In 1914 we hear him saying: “Wir sahen oben dass das Cantorsche Haupttheorem für den Intuitionisten keines Beweises bedarf” (“As we saw above, for us, being intuitionists, Cantor's Main Theorem does not need a proof”) [3]. Nevertheless, five years later, he publishes an essay: Theorie der Punktmengen, which might be described as an attempt to reconstruct Cantor's reasonings in detail [4].

This attempt was not entirely successful, as Brouwer comes to admit in 1952, probably having lost, now, some of his youthful rashness [10]. So the question of what the constructive content of Cantor's Main Theorem is, still awaits an answer.

We do not think the answer we will give can be considered a conclusive one, but, in any case, it is a beginning.
Sous-groupes définissables d'un groupe stable
Authors: Poizat Bruno
Published: May 2006

On sait, depuis les travaux de Zil'ber et de Cherlin, que le degré de Morley de la théorie T d'un groupe G totalement transcendant est l'indice du plus petit sous-groupe définissable d'indice fini de G. Il est clair qu'il lui est supérieur, et l'inégalité inverse peut s'obtenir de la manière suivante: on fait agir G sur les types de S1(G) de rang de Morley maximum en associant à p, type de x au-dessus de G, le type ap de ax au-dessus de G; on montre alors que cette action est définissable, que le fait que ap = q équivaut au fait que a satisfasse une certaine formule à paramètres dans G, ce qui est bien facile si on n'oublie pas que dans une théorie stable tous les types sont définissables; on montre ensuite que cette action est transitive, que si p et q sont de rang de Morley maximum il existe a dans G tel que ap = q, et la méthode la plus rapide, mais qui est aussi la plus sophistiquée, est d'utiliser l'argument de symétrie de la déviation employé dans la preuve de la Proposition 1 de présent article; on conclut alors puisque le degré de Morley, qui est par définition le nombre de types de rang de Morley maximum, ést egal à l'indice du stabilisateur de p, qui est définissable.

Ce comportement des types de rang de Morely maximum se retrouve sans peine, si G est seulement superstable, dans celui des types de “plus petit rang continu” (encore appellé “degré de Shelah”) maximum. Pour trouver ce qui leur correspond dans le cas où G est seulement stable, il faut être un peu plus soigneux, et considérer les types p de S1(G), où G aura éventuellement été remplacé par une extension élémentaire suffisament saturée, tels que pour tout a de G ap ne dévie pas sur ∅: on montre qu'ils existent, et qu'ils sont tous conjugués par action de G; le fait que ap = q s'exprimera cette fois par une infinité de formules et non plus par une seule.
Weakly compact cardinals: A combinatorial proof
Authors: Shelah S.
Published: May 2006

We give here a direct purely combinatorial proof that weak compactness is equivalent to a combinatorial property (2). This property (2) is apparently stronger, and from it, all other usual equivalent definitions and usual properties of weakly compact cardinals can be deduced. So this proof may be useful for books which want to present weakly compact cardinals, but not logic.

A direct simple proof of a weaker implication (e.g., weakly compact μ is not the first inaccessible, and every stationary set has an initial segment which is stationary) was given by Kunen [K] and independently by the author [Sh]. Baumgartner [B] had another proof.

We were motivated by the manuscript of Erdös, Hajnal, Mate and Rado's book on partition calculus, and by conversations with A. Levi who was writing a book on naive set theory.

Notation. Let i, j, α, β, γ, η, σ be ordinals, μ be a cardinal, f, g be functions.

Let cf α be the cofinality of α.

A partially ordered set T is a tree if for any a ∈ T, {b: b < a, b ∈ T} is well ordered; its order type (an ordinal) is called the level of a, and Tα is the set of a ∈ T of level a.
Logic and time
Authors: Burgess John P.
Published: May 2006

‘In Time rigorous abstraction, in Time the highest, in Time divine knowledge, is comprehended’

Atharva Veda

Following McTaggart [17], we may distinguish two aspects of time: The A-series, running through the past to the present and on into the future, and the B-series, running from earlier to later. In Indo-European languages at least, verbs are tensed, so we cannot help but place whatever we speak of in one of the three divisions of the A-series. But these divisions are not permanent: what is present was future and will be past. Hence a typical statement, e.g. ‘Socrates is sitting’, may well be true at one time and false at another. The instability of truth-value over time was a commonplace among pre-Renaissance logicians, but most modern writers have ‘abstracted from’, i.e. ignored, this feature of ordinary language.

Early logicians were quite interested in time: Aristotle questioned the applicability of the excluded middle to predictions of future contingencies in the famous ‘sea-fight’ passage of On interpretation. Later Greek logicians debated whether that which neither is nor will be can legitimately be called possible, and whether, in order for the conditional ‘if p, then q’ to be true, it is required that ‘not both p and not ∼q’ be true (not just now but) always. Mediaeval logicians in Western Europe struggled with logical difficulties created by the Dogmas of the Church, Omniscience and Free Will. Their counterparts in the Islamic world puzzled over the semantics of the temporal adverbs, ‘always’, ‘usually’, ‘often’, ‘sometimes’, ‘seldom’, ‘never’.
Chains and antichains in
Authors: Baumgartner James E.
Published: May 2006

Consider the following propositions:

(A) Every uncountable subset of contains an uncountable chain or antichain (with respect to ⊆).

(B) Every uncountable Boolean algebra contains an uncountable antichain (i.e., an uncountable set of pairwise incomparable elements).

Until quite recently, relatively little was known about these propositions. The oldest result, due to Kunen [4] and the author independently, asserts that if the Continuum Hypothesis (CH) holds, then (A) is false. In fact there is a counter-example 〈Aα: α < ω1〉 such that α < β implies Aβ −Aα is finite. Kunen also observed that Martin's Axiom (MA) + ¬CH implies that no such counterexample 〈Aα: α < ω1〉 exists.

Much later, Komjáth and the author [2] showed that ◊ implies the existence of several kinds of uncountable Boolean algebras with no uncountable chains or antichains. Similar results (but motivated quite differently) were obtained independently by Rubin [5]. Berney [3] showed that CH implies that (B) is false, but his algebra has uncountable chains. Finally, Shelah showed very recently that CH implies the existence of an uncountable Boolean algebra with no uncountable chains or antichains.

Except for Kunen's result cited above, the only result in the other direction was the theorem, due also to Kunen, that MA + ¬CH implies that any uncountable subset of with no uncountable antichains must have both ascending and decending infinite sequences under ⊆.
On hereditarily countable sets
Authors: Jech Thomas
Published: May 2006

It is shown (in ZF) that every hereditarily countable set has rank less than ω2, and that if ℵ1 is singular then there are hereditarily countable sets of all ranks less than ω2.
On the consistency of an impredicative subsystem of Quine's NF
Authors: Crabbé Marcel
Published: May 2006

NFP is thepredicativefragment of NF. In this system we do not allow a set to exist if it cannot be defined without using quantifiers ranging over its type or parameters of a higher type. NFI is a less restrictive fragment located between NFP and NF.

We show that NFP is really weaker than NFI; similarly, NFI is weaker than NF. This result will be obtained in the following manner: on the one hand, we will show that NFP can be proved consistent in elementary arithmetic and that second order arithmetic is interpretable in NFI; on the other hand, we will prove the consistency of NFI in third order arithmetic, which is contained in NF.

The paper is divided in four sections. In §1, we define the concepts needed and collect a few results together in such a way that they will be ready for later use. In §2, we will present a model-theoretic (quick) proof of the consistency of NFI (and thus of NFP). The proof will be chosen (it is not the quickest!) so as to motivate in a natural manner the details of the proof-theoretical version of it that will be presented in §3. §4 will be devoted to the axiom of infinity in NFP and NFI.
A result of relative consistency about the predicate WO(δ, x)
Authors: David René
Published: May 2006

In [K] Keisler introduces a set theoretical relation WO(δ, x), where δ is an ordinal. This relation is characterized in ZF set theory by the following properties:

(1) WO(0, x) if and only if there is a wellordering on x.

(2) For δ > 0, WO(δ, x) if and only if there is a function ƒ with domain an ordinal λ such that:

We denote WO∞ the collection denned by: WO∞(x) = ∃δ WO(δ, x).

In [K] Keisler shows that countable transitive models of ZF + ∃x ¬ WO∞(x) have transitive uncountable elementary extensions with the same ordinals. Moreover for transitive models, satisfying ∃x ¬ WO∞(x) is also a necessary condition for the existence of an elementary extension with the same ordinals. (See [K bis] and also [K-M] where the connection with forcing is analysed.)
The 1-section of a countable functional
Authors: Normann Dag , Wainer Stan S.
Published: May 2006

The continuous or countable functionals were independently denned by Kleene [9] and Kreisel [10]. They were intended as a suitable basis for constructive mathematics, and thus it is interesting to investigate various notions of recursion on the countable functionals.

There have been two main streams in this investigation, the study of countable recursion and the study of computability or Kleene-recursion.

Countable recursion is the theory of recursion on the associates. Gandy and Hyland [3] and Hyland [7] are good sources for the recent development of countable recursion.

This paper will mostly be concerned with Kleene-recursion on the countable functionals as denned in Kleene [8] and [9]. We assume some familiarity with the countable functionals and associates, as presented in Kleene [9], Bergstra [1] or any other paper on the subject.

Pioneering work with recursion in nonnormal objects was done by Grilliot [4], who proved that a functional F of type 2 is normal if and only if its 1-section (that is the set of functions recursive in F) is closed under ordinary jump, and if and only if F is continuous on 1-section (F).

Hinman [6] constructed a countable functional that is not recursively equivalent to a function, and thereby showed that recursion in nonnormal functionals is an extension of ordinary recursion in functions.

In [6], Hinman asked if there are functionals with topless 1-sections, i.e. with no maximal elements in the semi-lattice of degrees. This was answered in the affirmative by Bergstra [1], using a spoiling construction. Thus the class of 1-sections of functionals extends the class of 1-sections of functions.
A measurable cardinal with a nonwellfounded ultrapower
Authors: Spector Mitchell
Published: May 2006

The usefulness of measurable cardinals in set theory arises in good part from the fact that an ultraproduct of wellfounded structures by a countably complete ultrafilter is wellfounded. In the standard proof of the wellfoundedness of such an ultraproduct, one first shows, without any use of the axiom of choice, that the ultraproduct contains no infinite descending chains. One then completes the proof by noting that, assuming the axiom of choice, any partial ordering with no infinite descending chain is wellfounded. In fact, the axiom of dependent choices (a weakened form of the axiom of choice) suffices. It is therefore of interest to ask whether some use of the axiom of choice is needed in order to prove the wellfoundedness of such ultraproducts or whether, on the other hand, their wellfoundedness can be proved in ZF alone. In Theorem 1, we show that the axiom of choice is needed for the proof (assuming the consistency of a strong partition relation). Theorem 1 also contains some related consistency results concerning infinite exponent partition relations. We then use Theorem 1 to show how to change the cofinality of a cardinal κ satisfying certain partition relations to any regular cardinal less than κ, while introducing no new bounded subsets of κ. This generalizes a theorem of Prikry [5].
Forcing in intuitionistic systems without power-set
Authors: Grayson R.J.
Published: May 2006

It is shown how to define forcing semantics within metatheories not containing the power-set construction, in particular, how to construct exponents assuming only (a slightly strengthened form of) exponents in the metatheory. Some straightforward applications (consistency and independence results, and derived rules) are obtained for such systems.
Expansions of models and turing degrees
Authors: Knight Julia , Nadel Mark
Published: May 2006

If is a countable recursively saturated structure and T is a recursively axiomatizable theory that is consistent with Th(), then it is well known that can be expanded to a recursively saturated model of T [7, p. 186]. This is what has made recursively saturated models useful in model theory. Recursive saturation is the weakest notion of saturation for which this expandability result holds. In fact, if is a countable model of Pr = Th(ω, +), then can be expanded to a model of first order Peano arithmetic P just in case is recursively saturated (see [3]).

In this paper we investigate two natural sets of Turing degrees that tell a good deal about the expandability of a given structure. If is a recursively saturated structure, I() consists of the degrees of sets that are recursive in complete types realized in . The second set of degrees, D(), consists of the degrees of sets S such that is recursive in S-saturated. In general, I() ⊆ D(). Moreover, I() is obviously an “ideal” of degrees. For countable structures , D() is “closed” in the following sense: For any class C ⊆ 2ω, if C is co-r.e. in S for some set S such that , then there is some σ ∈ C such that . For uncountable structures , we do not know whether D() must be closed.
Deux ou trois choses que je sais de Ln
Authors: Poizat Bruno
Published: May 2006

Si vous ne gardez du calcul des prédicats classique (que j'appellerai Lω) que les formules qui ne font intervenir, tant en occurences libres que liées, que les n premières variables, vous obtenez le langage Ln. Avant de poursuivre, et de façon un peu cavalière, je vous invite à résoudre l'exercice suivant:

Exercice 1. Dans le langage comprenant seulement un symbole de relation binaire, caractériser à isomorphisme près la chaîne à n éléments au moyen d'un seul énoncé de L2.

Vous avez vu que Ln a plus de possibilités d'expression que vous ne l'aviez d'abord pensé, qu'il est ennemi de la forme prénexe, que sa force au contraire réside dans l'utilisation d'une même variable en différentes places d'une formule.

Ces langages ont été étudiés par Léon Henkin dans [1]; il y remarque que L1 est très pauvre: c'est le “calcul des classes”, on y peut seulement exprimer que des combinaisons booléennes de formules atomiques sont vides ou non, et nous n'en parlerons plus; il montre ensuite que tout théorème de L2est prouvable par une suite de déductions (d'un système classique) qui ne fait intervenir que des énoncés de L3. Dans [2], Donald Monk construit pour tout n un théorème de L3 dont toute preuve utilise des énoncés avec au moins n variables. Dans [3], Dana Scott prouve que L2 est décidable; ce résultat est précisé par Michael Mortimer dans [4], qui montre que tout énoncé consistant f de L2 a un modèle fini, de cardinal borné effectivement en fonction de f. Pour n supérieur ou égal à 3, Ln n'est plus décidable car il a même pouvoir d'expression que Lω, comme il est montré dans l'exercice suivant.
An axiomatic version of positive semilattice relevance logic
Authors: Charlwood G.
Published: May 2006

In [8] and [9] Urquhart presented the semilattice semantics for a relevance logic with conjunction and disjunction. These semantics combined the simplest known semantics for relevant implication, with minimal modification of the truth conditions for conjunction and disjunction. A slightly different approach leads to the distinct positive relevance logic of [7] and [5]. Sound and complete axiomatic logics for the semilattice semantics were readily available, so long as disjunction was left out.

The purpose of this paper is to report the remedy of this lack. In [1] the author developed work of Fine ([3], announced in [4]) and Prawitz [6] to show soundness and completeness of an axiomatic logic and two natural deduction logics, with respect to Urquhart's semantics. Thus Prawitz' positive relevance logic is equivalent to the semilattice logic, rather than the logic of [5]. We present here the axiomatic logic and show its equivalence to the semilattice semantics.

In §1 the languages and logic are given, along with a few proof-theoretic remarks. In §2 the semantics are defined, and the soundness proof is sketched. In §3, the completeness proof is given.
Nonstandard natural number systems and nonstandard models
Authors: Kamo Shizuo
Published: May 2006

It is known (see [1, 3.1.5]) that the order type of the nonstandard natural number system *N has the form ω + (ω* + ω) θ, where θ is a dense order type without first or last element and ω is the order type of N. Concerning this, Zakon [2] examined *N more closely and investigated the nonstandard real number system *R, as an ordered set, as an additive group and as a uniform space. He raised five questions which remained unsolved. These questions are concerned with the cofinality and coinitiality of θ (which depend on the underlying nonstandard universe *U). In this paper, we shall treat nonstandard models where the cofinality and coinitiality of θ coincide with some appropriated cardinals. Using these nonstandard models, we shall give answers to three of these questions and partial answers to the other to questions in [2].
Blunt and topless end extensions of models of set theory
Authors: Kaufmann Matt
Published: May 2006

Let be a well-founded model of ZFC whose class of ordinals has uncountable cofinality, such that has a Σn end extension for each n ∈ ω. It is shown in Theorem 1.1 that there is such a model which has no elementary end extension. In the process some interesting facts about topless end extensions (those with no least new ordinal) are uncovered, for example Theorem 2.1: If is a well-founded model of ZFC, such that has uncountable cofinality and has a topless Σ3 end extension, then has a topless elementary end extension and also a well-founded elementary end extension, and contains ordinals which are (in ) highly hyperinaccessible. In §3 related results are proved for κ-like models (κ any regular cardinal) which need not be well founded. As an application a soft proof is given of a theorem of Schmerl on the model-theoretic relation κ → λ. (The author has been informed that Silver had earlier, independently, found a similar unpublished proof of that theorem.) Also, a simpler proof is given of (a generalization of) a characterization by Keisler and Silver of the class of well-founded models which have a Σn end extension for each n ∈ ω. The case κ = ω1 is investigated more deeply in §4, where the problem solved by Theorem 1.1 is considered for non-well-founded models. In Theorems 4.1 and 4.4, ω1-like models of ZFC are constructed which have a Σn end extension for all n ∈ ω but have no elementary end extension. ω1-like models of ZFC which have no Σ3 end extension are produced in Theorem 4.2. The proof uses a notion of satisfaction class, which is also applied in the proof of Theorem 4.6: No model of ZFC has a definable end extension which satisfies ZFC. Finally, Theorem 5.1 generalizes results of Keisler and Morley, and Hutchinson, by asserting that every model of ZFC of countable cofinality has a topless elementary end extension. This contrasts with the rest of the paper, which shows that for well-founded models of uncountable cofinality and for κ-like models with κ regular, topless end extensions are much rarer than blunt end extensions.
On the semantics of the Henkin quantifier
Authors: Krynicki Michał , Lachlan Alistair H.
Published: May 2006

In [5] Henkin defined a quantifier, which we shall denote by QH: linking four variables in one formula. This quantifier is related to the notion of formulas in which the usual universal and existential quantifiers occur but are not linearly ordered. The original definition of QH was

Here (QHx1x2y1y2)φ is true if for every x1 there exists y1 such that for every x2 there exists y2, whose choice depends only on x2 not on x1 and y1 such that φ(x14, x2, y1, y2). Another way of writing this is

In [5] it was observed that the logic L(QH) obtained by adjoining QH defined as in (1) is more powerful than first-order logic. In particular, it turned out that the quantifier “there exist infinitely many” denoted Q0 was definable from QH because
Recursive Boolean algebras with recursive atoms
Authors: Remmel Jeffrey B.
Published: May 2006

A Boolean algebra (henceforth abbreviated B.A.) is said to be recursive if B is a recursive subset of the natural numbers N and the operations ∧ (meet), ∨ (join), and ¬ (complement) are partial recursive. Let denote the set of atoms of and denote the ideal generated by the atoms of . Given recursive B.A.s and , we write ≈ if is isomorphic to and ≈r if is recursively isomorphic to , i.e., if there is a partial recursive isomorphism from onto .

Recursive B.A.s have been studied by several authors including Ershov [2], Fiener [3], [4], Goncharov [5], [6], [7], LaRoche [8], Nurtazin [7], and the author [10], [11]. This paper continues a study of the recursion theoretic relationships among , , and the recursive isomorphism type of a recursive B.A. we started in [11]. We refer the reader to [11] for any unexplained notation and definitions. In [11], we were mainly concerned with the possible recursion theoretic properties of the set of atoms in recursive B.A.s. We found that even if we insist that be recursive, there is considerable freedom for the properties of . For example, we showed that if is a recursive B.A. such that is recursive and is infinite, then (i) there exists a recursive B.A. such that and both and are recursive and (ii) for any nonzero r.e. degree δ, there exist recursive B.A.s , , … such that for each i, is of degree δ, is recursive, is immune if i is even and is not immune if i is odd, and no two B.A.s in the sequence are recursively isomorphic.
A result on implications of Σ1-sentences and its application to normal form theorems
Authors: Girard Jean-Yves , Päppinghaus Peter
Published: May 2006

In this paper we are concerned with the formal provability of certain true implications of Σ1-sentences. Old completeness and incompleteness results already give some information about this. For example by Σ1-completeness of PRA (primitive recursive arithmetic) every true implication of the form D → E, where D is a Σ0-sentence and E a Σ1-sentence, or D a Σ1-sentence and E a true Σ1-sentence, is provable in PRA. On the other hand, by Gödel's incompleteness theorems one can define for every suitable theory S a false Σ1-sentence Ds such that for every false Σ0-sentence E the true implication Ds → E is not provable in S, but is provable in PRA + Cons. So one sees that for a suitable fixed conclusion the provability of true implications of Σ1-sentences depends on the content of the premise.

Now we ask, if and how for a suitable fixed premise the provability of true implications of Σ1-sentences depends on the conclusion. As remarked above, by Σ1-completeness of PRA this question is settled, if the premise is true. For a false premise it is answered in § 1 as follows: Let D be a false Σ1-sentence, S an extension of PRA, and S+ ≔ PRA + IAΣ1 + RFNΣ1S). Depending on D and S one can define a Σ1-sentence Es such that S+ ⊢ D → Es, but S ⊬ D → Es provided that S+ is not strong enough to refute D. (IAΣ1 denotes the scheme of the induction axiom for Σ1-formulas, and RFNΣ1(S) the uniform Σ1-reflection principle for S.)
Vopěnka's principle and compact logics
Authors: Makowsky J. A.
Published: May 2006

We study the effects of Vopěnka's principle on properties of model theoretic logics. We show that Vopěnka's principle is equivalent to the assumption that every finitely generated logic has a compact cardinal. We show also that it is equivalent to the assumption that every such logic has a global Hanf number.
Comparing incomparable kleene degrees
Authors: Welch Philip
Published: May 2006

In the December 1982 issue of this Journal Weitkamp [W] posed some questions concerning the incomparability of certain “r.e.” sets for the notion of Kleene reducibility. He asked whether the incomparability of, for example, the Friedman set F (defined below) and the set WI0 (the set of reals coding wellfounded trees of admissible height) was equivalent to the existence of 0#, since forcing over L with a set of conditions could not achieve this. We answer this by showing that in a certain class generic extension of L they are comparable, but 0# does not exist. This is an application of Jensen's coding theorem (cf. [BJW]), using a modified construction due to René David [D]. Indeed the result here is a simple application of his result. Define F as follows:

Harrington showed, in effect, that one could not add a cone of Turing degrees to this set by forcing with sets of conditions over L. The method used here does add a cone of Turing degrees to a much simpler set RI1 (defined below)—and indeed the whole process could be viewed as forcing over L to obtain the determinacy of certain rather simple sets. It is the determinacy of the game with payoff set RI1 that ensures the comparability of F and WI0 (amongst many others).

We shall refrain from repeating all the basic definitions and lemmas since the reader can readily refer to [W]; we shall give the basic necessities.