Suppose that α = γ + δ where γ ≥ δ > 0. Then there is a graph which has no independent set of order type and has no pentagram (a pentagram is a set of five points with all pairs joined by edges). In the notation of Erdős and Rado. who generalized Ramsey's Theorem to this setting.

For a fixed set A. the number of queries to A needed in order to decide a set S is a measure of S's complexity. We consider the complexity of certain sets defined in terms of A:

and, for m > 2,

where #nA. (x1….. xn) = A(x1) + A(xn)(We identify with , where χA is the characteristic function of A.)

If A is a nonrecursive semirecursive set or if A is a jump, we give tight bounds on the number of queries needed in order to decide ODDnA and MODmnA:

• ODDnA can be decided with n parallel queries to A, but not with n − 1.

• ODDnA can be decided with ⌈log(n + 1)⌉ sequential queries to A but not with ⌈log(n + 1)⌉ − 1.

• MODmnA can be decided with ⌈n/m⌉ + ⌊n/m⌋ parallel queries to A but not with ⌈n/m⌉ + ⌊n/m⌋ − 1.

• MODmnA can be decided with ⌈log(⌈n/m⌉ + ⌊n/m⌋ + 1)⌉ sequential queries to A but not with ⌈log(⌈n/m⌉ + ⌊n/m⌋ + 1)⌉ − 1.

The lower bounds above hold for nonrecursive recursively enumerable sets A as well. (Interestingly, the lower bounds for recursively enumerable sets follow by a general result from the lower bounds for semirecursive sets.)

In particular, every nonzero truth-table degree contains a set A such that ODDnA cannot be decided with n − 1 parallel queries to A. Since every truth-table degree also contains a set B such that ODDnB can be decided with one query to B, a set's query complexity depends more on its structure than on its degree.

For a fixed set A,

Q(n, A) = {S: S can be decided with n sequential queries to A}.

Q∥ (n, A) = {S : S can be decided with n parallel queries to A}.

We show that if A is semirecursive or recursively enumerable, but is not recursive, then these classes form non-collapsing hierarchies:

• Q(0,A) ⊂ Q (1, A) ⊂ Q(2, A) ⊂ …

Q∥ (0, A) ⊂ Q∥ (1, A) ⊂ Q∥ (2, A) ⊂ …

The same is true if A is a jump.

This paper contains a joint study of two sentential logics that combine a many-valued character, namely tetravalence, with a modal character; one of them is normal and the other one quasinormal. The method is to study their algebraic counterparts and their abstract models with the tools of Abstract Algebraic Logic, and particularly with those of Brown and Suszko's theory of abstract logics as recently developed by Font and Jansana in their “A General Algebraic Semantics for Sentential Logics”. The logics studied here arise from the algebraic and lattice-theoretical properties we review of Tetravalent Modal Algebras, a class of algebras studied mainly by Loureiro, and also by Figallo. Landini and Ziliani, at the suggestion of the late Antonio Monteiro.

In 1978 Shelah introduced a new class of theories, called simple (see [Shi]) which properly contained the class of stable theories. Shelah generalized part of the theory of forking to the simple context. After approximately 15 years of neglecting the general theory (although there were works by Hrushovski on finite rank with a definability assumption, as well as deep results on specific simple theories by Cherlin, Hrushovski, Chazidakis, Macintyre and Van den dries, see [CH], [CMV], [HP1], [HP2], [ChH]) there was a breakthrough, initiated with the work of Kim ([K1]). Kim proved that almost all the technical machinery of forking developed in the stable context could be generalized to simple case. However, the theory of multiplicity (i.e., the description of the (bounded) set of non forking extensions of a given complete type) no longer holds in the context of simple theories. Indeed, by contrast to simple theories, stable theories share a strong amalgamation property of types, namely if p and q are two “free” complete extensions over a superset of A, and there is no finite equivalence relation over A which separates them, then the conjunction of p and q is consistent (and even free over A.) In [KP] Kim and Pillay proved a weak version of this property for any simple theory, namely “the Independence Theorem for Lascar strong types”. This was a weaker version both because of the requirement that the sets of parameters of the types be mutually independent, as well as the use of Lascar strong types instead of the usual strong types. A very fundamental and interesting problem is whether the independence theorem can be proved for any simple theory, using only the usual strong types. In 1997 Buechler proved ([Bu]) the strong-type version of the independence theorem for an important subclass of simple theories, namely the class of low theories (which includes the class of stable theories and the class of supersimple theories of finite D-rank.)

We introduce a sequent calculus B for a new logic, named basic logic. The aim of basic logic is to find a structure in the space of logics. Classical, intuitionistic. quantum and non-modal linear logics, are all obtained as extensions in a uniform way and in a single framework. We isolate three properties, which characterize B positively: reflection, symmetry and visibility.

A logical constant obeys to the principle of reflection if it is characterized semantically by an equation binding it with a metalinguistic link between assertions, and if its syntactic inference rules are obtained by solving that equation. All connectives of basic logic satisfy reflection.

To the control of weakening and contraction of linear logic, basic logic adds a strict control of contexts, by requiring that all active formulae in all rules are isolated, that is visible. From visibility, cut-elimination follows. The full, geometric symmetry of basic logic induces known symmetries of its extensions, and adds a symmetry among them, producing the structure of a cube.

We show that for every enumeration degree a < 0′e there exists an e-degree c such that a ≤ c < 0′e, and all degrees b, with c ≤ b < 0′e, are properly Σ20.

Working in ZFC, we show that for any infinite cardinal k and ordinal y < (2<k)+ the polarized partition relation

holds. Our proof of this relation involves the use of elementary substructures of set models of large fragments of ZFC.

In [7] the author discussed the relative force —in the set theory ZF— of some representation theorems for ℓ-groups (lattice-ordered groups). One of the theorems not discussed in that paper is the Hahn representation theorem for abelian ℓ-groups. This result, originally proved by Hahn (see [8]) for totally ordered groups and half a century later by Conrad, Harvey and Holland for the general case (see [4]), states that any abelian ℓ-group can be embedded in a Hahn product of copies of R (the real line with its natural totally-ordered group structure). Both proofs rely heavily on Zorn's Lemma which is equivalent to AC (the axiom of choice).

The aim of this work is to point out the use of non-constructible axioms (i.e., AC and weaker forms of it) in the proofs. Working in the frame of ZFA, that is, the Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory where a non-empty set of atoms is allowed, we present alternative proofs which, in the totally ordered case, do not require the use of AC. For basic concepts and notation on ℓ-groups the reader can refer to [1] and [2]. For set theory, to [11].

Until very recently, it was thought that there couldn't be any current interest in logicism as a philosophy of mathematics. Indeed, there is an old argument one often finds that logicism is a simple nonstarter just in virtue of the fact that if it were a logical truth that there are infinitely many natural numbers, then this would be in conflict with the existence of finite models. It is certainly true that from the perspective of model theory, arithmetic cannot be a part of logic. However, it is equally true that model theory's reliance on a background of axiomatic set theory renders it unable to match Frege's Theorem, the derivation within second order logic of the infinity of the number series from the contextual “definition” of the cardinality operator. Called “Hume's Principle” by Boolos, the contextual definition of the cardinality operator is presented in Section 63 of Grundlagen, as the statement that, for any concepts F and G,

the number of F s = the number of G s

if, and only if,

F is equinumerous with G.

The philosophical interest in Frege's Theorem derives from the thesis, defended for example by Crispin Wright, that Hume's principle expresses our pre-analytic conception of assertions of numerical identity. However, Boolos cites the very fact that Hume's principle has only infinite models as grounds for denying that it is logically true: For Boolos, Hume's principle is simply a disguised axiom of infinity.

We show that true first-order arithmetic is interpretable over the real-algebraic structure of models of intuitionistic analysis built upon a certain class of complete Heyting algebras. From this the undecidability of the structures follows. We also show that Scott's model is equivalent to true second-order arithmetic. In the appendix we argue that undecidability on the language of ordered rings follows from intuitionistically plausible properties of the real numbers.

We give a direct proof of admissibility of cut and contraction for the contraction-free sequent calculus G4ip for intuitionistic propositional logic and for a corresponding multi-succedent calculus: this proof extends easily in the presence of quantifiers, in contrast to other, indirect, proofs, i.e., those which use induction on sequent weight or appeal to admissibility of rules in other calculi.

The first example of a simultaneous inductive-recursive definition in intuitionistic type theory is Martin-Löfs universe à la Tarski. A set U0 of codes for small sets is generated inductively at the same time as a function T0, which maps a code to the corresponding small set, is defined by recursion on the way the elements of U0 are generated.

In this paper we argue that there is an underlying general notion of simultaneous inductive-recursive definition which is implicit in Martin-Löf's intuitionistic type theory. We extend previously given schematic formulations of inductive definitions in type theory to encompass a general notion of simultaneous induction-recursion. This enables us to give a unified treatment of several interesting constructions including various universe constructions by Palmgren, Griffor, Rathjen, and Setzer and a constructive version of Aczel's Frege structures. Consistency of a restricted version of the extension is shown by constructing a realisability model in the style of Allen.

We prove for any μ = μ<μ < θ < λ. λ large enough (just strongly inaccessible Mahlo) the consistency of and even for σ < μ. The new point is that possibly 0 > μ+.

In modules many ‘positive’ versions of model-theoretic concepts turn out to be equivalent to concepts known in classical module theory—by ‘positive’ we mean that instead of allowing arbitrary first-order formulas in the model-theoretic definitions only positive primitive formulas are taken into consideration. (This feature is due to Baur's quantifier elimination for modules, cf. [Pr], however we will not make explicit use of it here.) Often this allows one to combine model-theoretic methods with algebraic ones. One instance of this is the result proved in [Rot1] (see also [Rot2]) that the Mittag-Leffler modules are exactly the positively atomic modules. This paper is parallel to the one just mentioned in that it is proved here, Theorem 3.1, that the pure-projective modules are exactly the positively constructible modules. The following parallel facts from module theory and from model theory led us to this result: every pure-projective module is Mittag-Leffler and the converse is true for countable (in fact even countably generated) modules, cf. [RG]; every constructible model is atomic and the converse is true for countable models, cf. [Pi].

The paper establishes the general structure of the inconsistent models of arithmetic of [7]. It is shown that such models are constituted by a sequence of nuclei. The nuclei fall into three segments: the first contains improper nuclei: the second contains proper nuclei with linear chromosomes: the third contains proper nuclei with cyclical chromosomes. The nuclei have periods which are inherited up the ordering. It is also shown that the improper nuclei can have the order type of any ordinal, of the rationals, or of any other order type that can be embedded in the rationals in a certain way.

We characterize Maharam spectra of Loeb probability spaces and give some applications of the results.

We investigate topological properties of subsets S of the real plane, expressed by first-order logic sentences in the language of the reals augmented with a binary relation symbol for S. Two sets are called topologically elementary equivalent if they have the same such first-order topological properties. The contribution of this paper is a natural and effective characterization of topological elementary equivalence of closed semi-algebraic sets.

We consider a finite universe (more exactly—a family of them), second order quantifiers QK, where for each this means quantifying over a family of n(K)-place relations closed under permuting . We define some natural orders and shed some light on the classification problem of those quantifiers.

We extend in a natural way the operation of Turing machines to infinite ordinal time, and investigate the resulting supertask theory of computability and decidability on the reals. Every set. for example, is decidable by such machines, and the semi-decidable sets form a portion of the sets. Our oracle concept leads to a notion of relative computability for sets of reals and a rich degree structure, stratified by two natural jump operators.