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Grzegorcyk's hierarchy and IepΣ1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Gaisi Takeuti
Gaisi Takeuti*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, E-mail: [email protected]
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A proof-theoretic characterization of the primitive recursive functions is the Σ1-definable functions in IΣ1 as is shown in Mints [4], Parsons [5], and [8].

Then what is a proof-theoretic characterization of Grzegorzyk's hierarchy? First we discuss a related previous work. In Clote and Takeuti [2], we introduced a theory TAC that corresponds to the computational complexity class AC. TAC has a very weak form of induction. We assign a rank to a proof in TAC in the following way. The rank of a proof P in TAC is the nesting number of inductions used in P. Then TACi is defined to be the subtheory of TAC whose proof has a rank ≤ i. We proved that TACi corresponds to the class ACi.

In this paper we introduce a theory IepΣ1 which is equivalent to IΣ1. Then we define the rank of a proof in IepΣ1 as the nesting number of inductions in the proof and prove that the proofs with rank ≤ i correspond to Grzegorcyk's hierarchy for i > 0.

We also prove that the system that has proofs with rank 0 is actually equivalent to I Δ0. These facts are interesting since it is proved in [10] that the theory isomorphic to TAC∘ by RSUV isomorphism is a conservative extension of I Δo. Therefore there is some analogy between the class AC and the primitive recursive functions.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , December 1994 , pp. 1274 - 1284
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1994

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