Tracking chains revisited

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Abstract: The structure calC2:=(1infty,le,le1,le2), introduced and first analyzed in Carlson and Wilken 2012 (APAL), is shown to be elementary recursive. Here, 1infty denotes the proof-theoretic ordinal of the fragment Pi11-mathrmCA0 of second order number theory, or equivalently the set theory mathrmKPl0, which axiomatizes limits of models of Kripke-Platek set theory with infinity. The partial orderings le1 and le2 denote the relations of Sigma1- and Sigma2-elementary substructure, respectively. In a subsequent article we will show that the structure calC2 comprises the core of the structure calR2 of pure elementary patterns of resemblance of order 2. In Carlson and Wilken 2012 (APAL) the stage has been set by showing that the least ordinal containing a cover of each pure pattern of order 2 is 1infty. However, it is not obvious from Carlson and Wilken 2012 (APAL) that calC2 is an elementary recursive structure. This is shown here through a considerable disentanglement in the description of connectivity components of le1 and le2. The key to and starting point of our analysis is the apparatus of ordinal arithmetic developed in Wilken 2007 (APAL) and in Section 5 of Carlson and Wilken 2012 (JSL), which was enhanced in Carlson and Wilken 2012 (APAL) specifically for the analysis of calC2.












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