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Degrees of sensible lambda theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Henk Barendregt ,
Jan Bergstra ,
Jan Willem Klop  and
Henri Volken
Henk Barendregt
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jan Bergstra
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Jan Willem Klop
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
Henri Volken
Affiliation:
Mathematics Institute, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Summary

A λ-theory T is a consistent set of equations between λ-terms closed under derivability. The degree of T is the degree of the set of Gödel numbers of its elements. is the λ-theory axiomatized by the set {M = N∣ M, N unsolvable}. A λ-theory is sensible iff T ⊃ ; for a motivation see [6] and [4].

In §1 it is proved that the theory is Σ20-complete. We present Wadsworth's proof that its unique maximal consistent extension * (= Th(D∞)) is Π20-complete. In §2 it is proved that η (= λη-calculus + ) is not closed under the ω-rule (see [1]). In §3 arguments are given to conjecture that is Π11-complete. This is done by representing recursive sets of sequence numbers as λ-terms and by connecting wellfoundedness of trees with provability in ω. In §4 an infinite set of equations independent over η will be constructed. From this it follows that there are 2ℵ0 sensible theories T such that and 2ℵ0 sensible hard models of arbitrarily high degrees. In §5 some nonprovability results needed in §§1 and 2 are established. For this purpose one uses the theory η extended with a reduction relation for which the Church–Rosser theorem holds. The concept of Gross reduction is used in order to show that certain terms have no common reduct.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 45 - 55
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1978

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