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Computable Structures and the Hyperarithmetical Hierarchy
- 1st Edition, Volume 144 - June 16, 2000
- Authors: C.J. Ash, J. Knight
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 0 0 7 2 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 2 9 5 2 - 3
This book describes a program of research in computable structure theory. The goal is to find definability conditions corresponding to bounds on complexity which persist under… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis book describes a program of research in computable structure theory. The goal is to find definability conditions corresponding to bounds on complexity which persist under isomorphism. The results apply to familiar kinds of structures (groups, fields, vector spaces, linear orderings Boolean algebras, Abelian p-groups, models of arithmetic). There are many interesting results already, but there are also many natural questions still to be answered. The book is self-contained in that it includes necessary background material from recursion theory (ordinal notations, the hyperarithmetical hierarchy) and model theory (infinitary formulas, consistency properties).
Preface. Computability. The arithmetical hierarchy. Languages and structures. Ordinals. The hyperarithmetical hierarchy. Infinitary formulas. Computable infinitary formulas. The Barwise-Kreisel Compactness Theorem. Existence of computable structures. Completeness and forcing. The Ash-Nerode Theorem. Computable categoricity and stability. n-systems. &agr;-systems. Back-and forth relations. Theorems of Barker and Davey. Pairs of computable structures. Models of arithmetic. Special classes of structures.
- No. of pages: 366
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 144
- Published: June 16, 2000
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Hardback ISBN: 9780444500724
- eBook ISBN: 9780080529523
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University of Notre Dame, Department of Mathematics, Notre Dame, IN, USARead Computable Structures and the Hyperarithmetical Hierarchy on ScienceDirect