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Fragments of bounded arithmetic and the lengths of proofs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Pavel Pudlák
Pavel Pudlák*
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, E-mail: pudlak@math.cas.cz
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Abstract

We consider the problem whether the theorems of the fragments form a strictly increasing hierarchy. We shall show a link to some results about the lengths of proofs in predicate logic that supports the conjecture that the hierarchy is strictly increasing.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 73 , Issue 4 , December 2008 , pp. 1389 - 1406
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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