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- From: zachr@solb1.essex.ac.uk (Zach R)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Axioms for *Skolem* arithmetic
- Message-ID: <5226@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 16:23:48 GMT
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- Reply-To: zach@csdec1.tuwien.ac.at
- Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Jamie Andrew's recent request for axioms for Presburger arithmetic
- started me thinking: What about (natural) axiomatizations of
- Skolem arithmetic, ie arithmetic with only 0, 1, and multiplication.
- (Note there is no successor). This theory is decidable as well,
- but what axioms would you give for times, if you cant define
- it recursively from plus?
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- If noone has an answer, maybe someone knows the email address of
- C Ward Henson (currently in Tuebingen, as far as I know), I
- think he worked on that back in the 70s.
-
- (BTW: Pre"sburg (Bratislava) is spelled with a sharp s)
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- Richard Zach
-