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Negative solution of the decision problem for sentences true in every subalgebra of 〈N, +〉

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Ralph Mckenzie
Ralph Mckenzie*
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University of California, Berkley, California 94720
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It was shown by Taiclin [6], and independently announced by Tarski [7], that the elementary theory of commutative cancellation semigroups is hereditarily undecidable. In his proof Tarski exhibited a subsemigroup of 〈N, ·〉, the natural numbers with multiplication, whose theory is both hereditarily and essentially undecidable. (The details of his construction were published by V. H. Dyson [1].) In connection with these results, Tarski suggested to the author that it would be of interest to solve the decision problem for the theory K which consists of all elementary sentences which are true in every subalgebra (i.e. every subsemigroup) of 〈N, +〉. The object of this note is to prove that the theory K is hereditarily undecidable.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 607 - 609
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1972

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