Topological models of arithmetic

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Abstract: Ali Enayat had asked whether there is a nonstandard model of Peano arithmetic (PA) that can be represented as langlemathbbQ,oplus,otimesangle, where oplus and otimes are continuous functions on the rationals mathbbQ. We prove, affirmatively, that indeed every countable model of PA has such a continuous presentation on the rationals. More generally, we investigate the topological spaces that arise as such topological models of arithmetic. The reals mathbbR, the reals in any finite dimension mathbbRn, the long line and the Cantor space do not, and neither does any Suslin line; many other spaces do; the status of the Baire space is open.











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