[FOM] Plea for literature on recursion theory in V_\omega

Francois G. Dorais dorais at math.cornell.edu
Wed Apr 30 17:21:29 EDT 2008


Vaughan Pratt wrote:
> What notations exist for the hereditarily countable sets?  I don't see 
> an obvious extension of the above.
> 
> Vaughan Pratt

See Gerald Sacks' "Higher Recursion Theory" where, in particular, he 
develops a notation system for L_{\omega_1^{CK}}.

Another useful reference for the original poster would be Jon Barwise's 
"Admissible Sets and Structures".

-- 
François G. Dorais
Department of Mathematics
Cornell University


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