Non-principal ultrafilters, program extraction and higher order reverse mathematics

Details Non-principal ultrafilters, program extraction and higher order reverse mathematics Non-principal ultrafilters, program extraction and higher order reverse mathematics

2011-09-20

arxiv.org/abs/1109.4277v1

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We investigate the strength of the existence of a non-principal ultrafilter over fragments of higher order arithmetic. Let U be the statement that a non-principal ultrafilter exists and let ACA_0^{\omega} be the higher order extension of ACA_0. We show that ACA_0^{\omega}+U is \Pi^1_2-conservative over ACA_0^{\omega} and thus that ACA_0^{\omega}+\U is conservative over PA. Moreover, we provide a program extraction method and show that from a proof of a strictly \Pi^1_2 statement \forall f \exists g A(f,g) in ACA_0^{\omega}+U a realizing term in G\"odel's system T can be extracted. This means that one can extract a term t, such that A(f,t(f)).

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