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Extensions of the constructive ordinals1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Wayne Richter
Wayne Richter*
Affiliation:
Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J.
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Kleene [5] mentions two ways of extending the constructive ordinals. The first is by relativizing the set O of notations for the constructive ordinals, using fundamental sequences which are partial recursive in O. In this way we obtain the set OO which provides notations for the ordinals less than ω1O. Continuing the process, the sequence O, OO, , … and the corresponding ordinals are obtained. A second possibility is to define (constructive) higher number classes in which partial recursive functions are used at limit ordinals to provide an “accessibility” mapping from a previously defined number class. The relationship between the ordinals obtained by the two methods of extension has been an open problem. Methods developed in this article are used to show that the two ways of extending the constructive ordinals are equivalent, provided the sets of notations for the higher number classes satisfy certain natural conditions. Equivalence is obtained, not only with respect to ordinals, but also with respect to the forms of the sets of notations for the higher number classes. Specifically, the fundamental fact that the sets of notations for the constructive ordinals are complete Π11 sets generalizes to suitably defined higher number classes. As an application we prove that the ordinals of the Addison and Kleene [1] constructive third number class are exactly the ordinals less than ω1O and the set of notations for their third number class is recursively isomorphic to OO.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1965 , pp. 193 - 211
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1965

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Research for this article was begun while the author was a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. Some of the material presented here is contained in the author's Ph.D. thesis [10] and was presented by title [11] to the American Mathematical Society, February, 1964.

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