{"title":"Elimination of quantifiers for a theory of real closed rings","authors":"Jorge I. Guier","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103494","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103494","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Let <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>⁎</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> be the theory of lattice-ordered, convex subrings of von Neumann regular real closed rings that are divisible-projectable, sc-regular (<span><span>[12]</span></span>) and have no minimal (non zero) idempotents. In this paper, we introduce and study a local divisibility binary relation that, added to the language for lattice-ordered rings, together with the (usual) divisibility relation and the radical relation associated to the minimal prime spectrum (<span><span>[19]</span></span>) yields quantifier elimination for <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>⁎</mo></mrow></msup></math></span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 1","pages":"Article 103494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Model-completeness and decidability of the additive structure of integers expanded with a function for a Beatty sequence","authors":"Mohsen Khani , Ali N. Valizadeh , Afshin Zarei","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103493","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103493","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We introduce a model-complete theory which completely axiomatizes the structure <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub><mo>=</mo><mo>〈</mo><mi>Z</mi><mo>,</mo><mo>+</mo><mo>,</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>f</mi><mo>〉</mo></math></span> where <span><math><mi>f</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>↦</mo><mo>⌊</mo><mi>α</mi><mi>x</mi><mo>⌋</mo></math></span> is a unary function with <em>α</em> a fixed transcendental number. Moreover, we show that decidability of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Z</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>α</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> is equivalent to computability of <em>α</em>. This result fits into the more general theme of adding traces of multiplication to integers without losing decidability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103493"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141638914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Club stationary reflection and other combinatorial principles at ℵω+2","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103489","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103489","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we continue the study in <span><span>[11]</span></span> of compactness and incompactness principles at double successors, focusing here on the case of double successors of singulars of countable cofinality. We obtain models which satisfy the tree property and club stationary reflection at these double successors. Moreover, we can additionally obtain either approachability or its failure. We also show how to obtain our results on <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ℵ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>ω</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> by incorporating collapses; particularly relevant for these circumstances is a new indestructibility theorem of ours showing that posets satisfying certain linked assumptions preserve club stationary reflection.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 1","pages":"Article 103489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141577930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bi-intermediate logics of trees and co-trees","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103490","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103490","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A bi-Heyting algebra validates the Gödel-Dummett axiom <span><math><mo>(</mo><mi>p</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>∨</mo><mo>(</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>→</mo><mi>p</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> iff the poset of its prime filters is a disjoint union of co-trees (i.e., order duals of trees). Bi-Heyting algebras of this kind are called <em>bi-Gödel algebras</em> and form a variety that algebraizes the extension <span><math><mi>bi-GD</mi></math></span> of bi-intuitionistic logic axiomatized by the Gödel-Dummett axiom. In this paper we initiate the study of the lattice <span><math><mi>Λ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>bi-GD</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> of extensions of <span><math><mi>bi-GD</mi></math></span>.</p><p>We develop the methods of Jankov-style formulas for bi-Gödel algebras and use them to prove that there are exactly continuum many extensions of <span><math><mi>bi-GD</mi></math></span>. We also show that all these extensions can be uniformly axiomatized by canonical formulas. Our main result is a characterization of the locally tabular extensions of <span><math><mi>bi-GD</mi></math></span>. We introduce a sequence of co-trees, called the <em>finite combs</em>, and show that a logic in <span><math><mi>Λ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>bi-GD</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> is locally tabular iff it contains at least one of the Jankov formulas associated with the finite combs. It follows that there exists the greatest nonlocally tabular extension of <span><math><mi>bi-GD</mi></math></span> and consequently, a unique pre-locally tabular extension of <span><math><mi>bi-GD</mi></math></span>. These results contrast with the case of the intermediate logic axiomatized by the Gödel-Dummett axiom, which is known to have only countably many extensions, all of which are locally tabular.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103490"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007224000940/pdfft?md5=c7604d9cf135b7d72a099447fc38fed7&pid=1-s2.0-S0168007224000940-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141573355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching problems above arithmetical transfinite recursion","authors":"Yudai Suzuki , Keita Yokoyama","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apal.2024.103488","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate some Weihrauch problems between <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ATR</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></msub></math></span>. We show that the fixed point theorem for monotone operators on the Cantor space (a weaker version of the Knaster-Tarski theorem) is not Weihrauch reducible to <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ATR</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span>. Furthermore, we introduce the <em>ω</em>-model reflection <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>ATR</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>rfn</mi></mrow></msubsup></math></span> of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ATR</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> and show that it is an upper bound for problems provable from the axiomatic system <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ATR</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> which are of the form <span><math><mo>∀</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>θ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>→</mo><mo>∃</mo><mi>Y</mi><mi>η</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>Y</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>)</mo></math></span> with arithmetical formulas <span><math><mi>θ</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>η</mi></math></span>. We also show that Weihrauch degrees of relativized least fixed point theorems for monotone operators on the Cantor space form a linear hierarchy between <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>ATR</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>rfn</mi></mrow></msubsup></math></span> and <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>C</mi></mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></msub></math></span>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141540300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decidability bounds for Presburger arithmetic extended by sine","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103487","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103487","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider Presburger arithmetic extended by the sine function, call this extension sine-Presburger arithmetic (<strong>sin-PA</strong>), and systematically study decision problems for sets of sentences in <strong>sin-PA</strong>. In particular, we detail a decision algorithm for existential sin-PA sentences under assumption of Schanuel's conjecture. This procedure reduces decisions to the theory of the ordered additive group of real numbers extended by sine, which is decidable under Schanuel's conjecture. On the other hand, we prove that four alternating quantifier blocks suffice for undecidability of sin-PA sentences. To do so, we explicitly interpret the weak monadic second-order theory of the grid, which is undecidable, in <strong>sin-PA</strong>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007224000915/pdfft?md5=8ec66c0193137f3b2153f14d4d1e4bed&pid=1-s2.0-S0168007224000915-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From GTC to : Generating reset proof systems from cyclic proof systems","authors":"Graham E. Leigh, Dominik Wehr","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103485","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103485","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider cyclic proof systems in which derivations are graphs rather than trees. Such systems typically come with a condition that isolates which derivations are admitted as proofs, known as the <em>soundness condition</em>. This soundness condition frequently takes the form of either a <em>global trace</em> condition, a property dependent on all infinite paths in the proof-graph, or a <em>reset</em> condition, a ‘local’ condition depending on the simple cycles only which, as a result, is typically stable under more proof transformations.</p><p>In this article we present a general method for constructing cyclic proof systems with reset conditions from systems with global trace conditions. In contrast to previous approaches, this method of generation is entirely independent of logic's semantics, only relying on combinatorial aspects of the notion of ‘trace’ and ‘progress’. We apply this method to present reset proof systems for three cyclic proof systems from the literature: cyclic arithmetic, cyclic Gödel's T and cyclic tableaux for the modal <em>μ</em>-calculus.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103485"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007224000897/pdfft?md5=3f6516f2a534f0fa710275ea2d71b171&pid=1-s2.0-S0168007224000897-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141402450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Posets of copies of countable ultrahomogeneous tournaments","authors":"Miloš S. Kurilić , Stevo Todorčević","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apal.2024.103486","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The <em>poset of copies</em> of a relational structure <span><math><mi>X</mi></math></span> is the partial order <span><math><mi>P</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><mo>〈</mo><mo>{</mo><mi>Y</mi><mo>⊂</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>:</mo><mi>Y</mi><mo>≅</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>}</mo><mo>,</mo><mo>⊂</mo><mo>〉</mo></math></span> and each similarity of such posets (e.g. isomorphism, forcing equivalence = isomorphism of Boolean completions, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>B</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow></msub><mo>:</mo><mo>=</mo><mrow><mi>ro</mi></mrow><mspace></mspace><mrow><mi>sq</mi></mrow><mspace></mspace><mi>P</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>X</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>) determines a classification of structures. Here we consider the structures from Lachlan's list of countable ultrahomogeneous tournaments: <span><math><mi>Q</mi></math></span> (the rational line), <span><math><mi>S</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> (the circular tournament), and <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup></math></span> (the countable homogeneous universal tournament); as well as the ultrahomogeneous digraphs <span><math><mi>S</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span>, <span><math><mi>Q</mi><mo>[</mo><msub><mrow><mi>I</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>]</mo></math></span>, <span><math><mi>S</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>)</mo><mo>[</mo><msub><mrow><mi>I</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>]</mo></math></span> and <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup><mo>[</mo><msub><mrow><mi>I</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>]</mo></math></span> from Cherlin's list.</p><p>If <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Rado</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> (resp. <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>) denotes the countable homogeneous universal graph (resp. <em>n</em>-labeled linear order), it turns out that <span><math><mi>P</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>∞</mo></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo><mo>≅</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>Rado</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> and that <span><math><mi>P</mi><mo>(</mo><msub><mrow><mi>Q</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></math></span> densely embeds in <span><math><mi>P</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>S</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>)</mo></math></span>, for <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>{</mo><mn>2</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>}</mo></math></span>.</p><p>Consequently, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>B</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>X</mi></mrow></msub><mo>≅</mo><mrow><mi>ro</mi></mrow><mspace></mspace><mo>(</mo><mi>S</mi><mo>⁎</mo><mi>π</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>, where <span><math><mi>S</mi></math></span> is the poset of perfect subsets of <span><math><mi>R</mi></math></span> and <em>π</em> an <span><math><mi>S</mi></math></span>-name such that <span><math><msub><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow></msub><mo","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141325306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Around definable types in p-adically closed fields","authors":"Pablo Andújar Guerrero , Will Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apal.2024.103484","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We prove some technical results on definable types in <em>p</em>-adically closed fields, with consequences for definable groups and definable topological spaces. First, the code of a definable <em>n</em>-type (in the field sort) can be taken to be a real tuple (in the field sort) rather than an imaginary tuple (in the geometric sorts). Second, any definable type in the real or imaginary sorts is generated by a countable union of chains parameterized by the value group. Third, if <em>X</em> is an interpretable set, then the space of global definable types on <em>X</em> is strictly pro-interpretable, building off work of Cubides Kovacsics, Hils, and Ye <span>[7]</span>, <span>[8]</span>. Fourth, global definable types can be lifted (in a non-canonical way) along interpretable surjections. Fifth, if <em>G</em> is a definable group with definable f-generics (<em>dfg</em>), and <em>G</em> acts on a definable set <em>X</em>, then the quotient space <span><math><mi>X</mi><mo>/</mo><mi>G</mi></math></span> is definable, not just interpretable. This explains some phenomena observed by Pillay and Yao <span>[24]</span>. Lastly, we show that interpretable topological spaces satisfy analogues of first-countability and curve selection. Using this, we show that all reasonable notions of definable compactness agree on interpretable topological spaces, and that definable compactness is definable in families.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141325305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forcing axioms and the uniformization-property","authors":"Stefan Hoffelner","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2024.103466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apal.2024.103466","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We show that there are models of <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>MA</mi></mrow><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></mrow></msub></math></span> where the <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>-uniformization property holds. Further we show that “<span><math><mi>BPFA</mi></math></span>+ <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ℵ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msub></math></span> is not inaccessible to reals” outright implies that the <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span>-uniformization property is true.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"175 10","pages":"Article 103466"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168007224000642/pdfft?md5=be051362a938ef048330838dac255f88&pid=1-s2.0-S0168007224000642-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141286509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}