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Universal recursion theoretic properties of r.e. preordered structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Franco Montagna
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Di Matematica, Università Di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italia
Andrea Sorbi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento Di Matematica, Università Di Siena, 53100 Siena, Italia

Extract

When dealing with axiomatic theories from a recursion-theoretic point of view, the notion of r.e. preordering naturally arises. We agree that an r.e. preorder is a pair = 〈P, ≤P〉 such that P is an r.e. subset of the set of natural numbers (denoted by ω), ≤P is a preordering on P and the set {〈;x, y〉: xPy} is r.e.. Indeed, if is an axiomatic theory, the provable implication of yields a preordering on the class of (Gödel numbers of) formulas of .

Of course, if ≤P is a preordering on P, then it yields an equivalence relation ~P on P, by simply letting x ~Py iff xPy and yPx. Hence, in the case of P = ω, any preordering yields an equivalence relation on ω and consequently a numeration in the sense of [4]. It is also clear that any equivalence relation on ω (hence any numeration) can be regarded as a preordering on ω. In view of this connection, we sometimes apply to the theory of preorders some of the concepts from the theory of numerations (see also Eršov [6]).

Our main concern will be in applications of these concepts to logic, in particular as regards sufficiently strong axiomatic theories (essentially the ones in which recursive functions are representable). From this point of view it seems to be of some interest to study some remarkable prelattices and Boolean prealgebras which arise from such theories. It turns out that these structures enjoy some rather surprising lattice-theoretic and universal recursion-theoretic properties.

After making our main definitions in §1, we examine universal recursion-theoretic properties of some r.e. prelattices in §2.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1985

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