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A decidable variety that is finitely undecidable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Joohee Jeong
Joohee Jeong*
Affiliation:
Topology and Geometry Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Taegu. S., Korea702-701, E-mail: jhjeong@kyungpook.ac.kr
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Abstract

We construct a decidable first-order theory T such that the theory of its finite models is undecidable. Moreover, T will be equationally axiomatizable and of finite type.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 64 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 651 - 677
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1999

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