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Open induction and the true theory of rationals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Zofia Adamowicz*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Extract

In the paper we prove the following theorem:

Theorem. There is a model N of open induction in which the set of primes is bounded and N is such that its field of fractionsN*, +, ·, <〉 is elementarily equivalent toQ, +, ·, <〉 (the standard rationals).

We fix an ω 1-saturated model 〈M, +, ·, <〉 of PA. Let 〈M*, +, ·, <〉 denote the field of fractions of M. The model N that we are looking for will be a substructure of 〈M*, +, ·, <〉.

If AM* then let Ā denote the ring generated by A within M*, the real closure of A, and A* the field of fractions generated by A. We have

Let JM. Then 〈M*, +, ·〉 is a linear space over J*. If x 1,…,xk M*, we shall say that x 1,…,xk are J-independent if 〈1, x 1,…, xk 〉 are J*-independent in the usual sense. As usual, we extend the notion of J-independence to the case of infinite sets.

If AM* and XA, then we say that X is a J-basis of A if X is a maximal subset of A which is J-independent.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1987

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