On the complexity of models of arithmetic

Abstract

AbstractLet P0 be the subsystem of Peano arithmetic obtained by restricting induction to bounded quantifier formulas. Let M be a countable, nonstandard model of P0 whose domain we suppose to be the standard integers. Let T be a recursively enumerable extension of Peano arithmetic all of whose existential consequences are satisfied in the standard model. Then there is an initial segment M′ of M which is a model of T such that the complete diagram of M′ is Turing reducible to the atomic diagram of M. Moreover, neither the addition nor the multiplication of M is recursive.