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Notes on polynomially bounded arithmetic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Domenico Zambella*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We characterize the collapse of Buss' bounded arithmetic in terms of the provable collapse of the polynomial time hierarchy. We include also some general model-theoretical investigations on fragments of bounded arithmetic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1996

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