Uniform versions of some axioms of second order arithmetic

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This paper is a contribution to \textit{Ulrich Kohlenbach}'s program [Ann. Pure Appl. Logic 114, 103--116 (2002; Zbl 1001.03052), and the paper to appear in the volume ``Reverse mathematics 2001\'\'] of lifting reverse mathematics from the context of second-order arithmetic, where it has been developed by S. G. Simpson and others [see \textit{S. G. Simpson}, Subsystems of second-order arithmetic. Berlin: Springer (1999; Zbl 0909.03048)], to higher-order arithmetic. Here the authors pursue the study of uniform versions of axioms and theorems of second-order arithmetic. The results support the observation that some of the well-known differences in the second-order case disappear in higher-order arithmetic. The authors show that the following statements are equivalent to the uniform version of weak König's lemma: the uniform version of weak weak König's lemma, two uniform versions of \(\Sigma^0_1\)-separation, the uniform version of the Bolzano-Weierstraß\ theorem, the uniform version of the Ramsey theorem (even for exponent \(1\), i.e.\ the pigeonhole principle), and the uniform versions of the existence of maximal and prime ideals of countable commutative rings. In second-order arithmetic some of these statements are equivalent to arithmetic comprehension (and thus much stronger than weak König's lemma), others are equivalent to weak König's lemma, some are properly weaker than weak König's lemma, and some are incomparable with it. Moreover, the authors prove the equivalence of the uniform versions of the existence of the kernel of a tree and of the existence of a perfect subtree of a tree with uncountably many paths. Again, these two consequences of the Cantor-Bendixson theorem are not equivalent in second-order arithmetic.




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