Decidability of the existential theory of the set of natural numbers with order, divisibility, power functions, power predicates, and constants
Author:
Véronique Terrier
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 114 (1992), 809-816
MSC:
Primary 03B25; Secondary 03F30
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1072092-6
MathSciNet review:
1072092
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Abstract: We construct an algorithm to test if a system of conditions of the types , and
has a solution in natural numbers. (
, and
denotes the set
.)
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V. Terrier, Decidability of the existential theory of
with order, divisibility and functions
, preprint. (French)
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1072092-6
Keywords:
Decision problems in arithmetic,
decidability
Article copyright:
© Copyright 1992
American Mathematical Society