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How to characterize provably total functions by local predicativity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Andreas Weiermann*
Affiliation:
Institut für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung, der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Einsteinstrasse 62, D-48149 Münster, Germany, E-mail: weierma@math.uni-muenster.de

Abstract

Inspired by Pohlers' proof-theoretic analysis of KPω we give a straightforward non-metamathematical proof of the (well-known) classification of the provably total functions of PA, PA + TI(⊰ ↾) (where it is assumed that the well-ordering ⊰ has some reasonable closure properties) and KPω. Our method relies on a new approach to subrecursion due to Buchholz, Cichon and the author.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1996

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