Satisfaction classes in nonstandard models of first-order arithmetic
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Authors: Fredrik Engström 
Publication date: 30 September 2002
Abstract: A satisfaction class is a set of nonstandard sentences respecting Tarski's truth definition. We are mainly interested in full satisfaction classes, i.e., satisfaction classes which decides all nonstandard sentences. Kotlarski, Krajewski and Lachlan proved in 1981 that a countable model of PA admits a satisfaction class if and only if it is recursively saturated. A proof of this fact is presented in detail in such a way that it is adaptable to a language with function symbols. The idea that a satisfaction class can only see finitely deep in a formula is extended to terms. The definition gives rise to new notions of valuations of nonstandard terms; these are investigated. The notion of a free satisfaction class is introduced, it is a satisfaction class free of existential assumptions on nonstandard terms. It is well known that pathologies arise in some satisfaction classes. Ideas of how to remove those are presented in the last chapter. This is done mainly by adding inference rules to M-logic. The consistency of many of these extensions is left as an open question.
Models with special properties (saturated, rigid, etc.) (03C50) Models of arithmetic and set theory (03C62) Nonstandard models of arithmetic (03H15)
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