[FOM] 793: Emulation Theory/Inductive Equations/3

Harvey Friedman hmflogic at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 00:11:46 EST 2018


There has been a likely-true important improvement for the infinite
statement equivalent to Con(HUGE).

We have been using the well founded relation on x,y in Q^k,

max(x) < max(y)

which we now write as

x <m y

When we go up to HUGE, there are some huge (pun) advantages in using
the well founded relation on x,y in Q^k,

x <c y if and only if for all 1 <= i <= k, x_i < y_i.

Right now, I am in the middle of writing down the details of the reversal of

INDUCTIVE UPPER SHIFT/m. IUS/m. Every order invariant R containedin Q^2k
has some S = S#\R<m[S] containing ush(S).

from

[1] Concrete Mathematical Incompleteness Status 2/8/18
http://u.osu.edu/friedman.8/foundational-adventures/downloadable-manuscripts/
#98

Here R<m[S] = {y: there exists x in S with x <m y and x R y}.

We expect to obtain the same equivalence with Con(SRP) over WKL_0 for

INDUCTIVE UPPER SHIFT/c. IUS/c. Every order invariant R containedin Q^2k
has some S = S#\R<c[S] containing ush(S).

So far, nothing new. BUT we have the INTERNAL INDUCTIVE UPPER SHIFT/m
in [1] that uses =_<= instead of =.

But we can keep = and avoid this =_<= if we move to

INTERNAL INDUCTIVE UPPER SHIFT/c. IIUS/c. Every order invariant R
containedin Q^2k has some S = S#\R<c[S] strongly containing ush(S).

To support this, we do have to modify the notion of "strongly containing".

DEFINITION. Let A,B containedin Q^k. A strongly contains B if and only
if A contains B, and every upper bounded section of B obtained by
fixing at least two arguments is an upper bounded section of A
obtained by fixing at least two arguments.

CAUTION. I claim that IIUS/c is provable in WKL_0 + Con(HUGE) and is
provable equivalent to a Pi01 sentence over WKL_0. I am not ready at
this time to claim the reversal, but this looks very promising.

Note that in the Definition above, the arguments may not be in the
same positions. A stronger variant is to require that they be in the
same positions. This is still provable in WKL_0 + Con(HUGE). Also,
IIUS/c is refutable if in the Definition, we replace "two" throughout
by "one".

BACK TO BACK COMPARISON

To reinforce my main point, look at these, back to back:

INDUCTIVE UPPER SHIFT/c. IUS/c. Every order invariant R containedin
Q^2k has some S = S#\R<c[S] containing ush(S).

INTERNAL INDUCTIVE UPPER SHIFT/c. IIUS/c. Every order invariant R
containedin Q^2k has some S = S#\R<c[S] strongly containing ush(S).

We jump from SRP to HUGE! (see Caution above).

SIMPLIIFED TEMPLATES

TEMPLATE A. Let alpha_1,...,alpha_n,beta_1,...,beta_n be formal
Boolean combinations of S,S#,R<c[S],ush(S). For all order invariant R
containedin Q^2k there exists S containedin Q^k such that each alpha_i
strongly contains beta_i.

More ambitious is

TEMPLATE B. Let alpha,beta,gamma_1,...,gamma_n,delta_1,...,delta_n be
formal Boolean combinations of S,S#,R<m[S],R<c[S],R[S],ush(S). For all
order invariant R containedin Q^2k there exists S containedin Q^k such
that alpha = beta, and each gamma_i strongly contains delta_i.

Note that there are only finitely many statements involved here for
fixed n, when we quantify over k.

CONJECTURE. Every instance of Template B is provable in WKL_0 +
Con(HUGE) or refutable in RCA_0.

A relevant question is: how big does n need to be in Template A in
order to get SRP, or get HUGE? n = 1 is enuf for SRP and n = 3 is enuf
for HUGE, although n = 2 is plausible for HUGE.

Partial results can be expected along the way that limit the
complexity of the finitely many formal Boolean combinations covered -
in various ways.

DARE to expand such Templates to allow for multiple R's. And then more
complex constructs than these upper images - maybe Boolean
combinations and iterates of such. We still can be dealing with
finitely many statements.

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Harvey Friedman


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