Some new results on decidability for elementary algebra and geometry

DOI10.1016/J.APAL.2012.04.003MaRDI QIDQ714712zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 11 October 2012

Published in Annals of Pure and Applied Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3482

Hilbert space Banach space decidability inner product space normed space undecidability

Decidability of theories and sets of sentences (03B25) Models of other mathematical theories (03C65) Quantifier elimination, model completeness, and related topics (03C10)

Abstract: We carry out a systematic study of decidability for theories of (a) real vector spaces, inner product spaces, and Hilbert spaces and (b) normed spaces, Banach spaces and metric spaces, all formalised using a 2-sorted first-order language. The theories for list (a) turn out to be decidable while the theories for list (b) are not even arithmetical: the theory of 2-dimensional Banach spaces, for example, has the same many-one degree as the set of truths of second-order arithmetic. We find that the purely universal and purely existential fragments of the theory of normed spaces are decidable, as is the AE fragment of the theory of metric spaces. These results are sharp of their type: reductions of Hilbert's 10th problem show that the EA fragments for metric and normed spaces and the AE fragment for normed spaces are all undecidable.

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