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Paper   IPM / Computer Science / 10872
School of Computer Science
  Title:   An Independence Result for Intuitionistic Bounded Arithmetic
  Author(s):  M. Moniri
  Status:   Published
  Journal: Journal of Logic and Computation
  No.:  2
  Vol.:  16
  Year:  2006
  Pages:   199-204
  Publisher(s):   Oxford University Press
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
It is shown that the intuitionistic theory of polynomial induction on positive ?1b (coNP) formulas does not prove the sentence ��?x, yz = y(x = - y - ? x = - z - ). This implies the unprovability of the scheme ��PIND(S1b+) in the mentioned theory. However, this theory contains the sentence ?x, y��z = y(x = - y - ? x = - z - ). The above independence result is proved by constructing an ?-chain of submodels of a countable model of S2 + O3 + �exp such that none of the worlds in the chain satisfies the sentence, and interpreting the chain as a Kripke model.

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