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On the Optimality of Conservation Results for Local Reflection in Arithmetic
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2014
Abstract
Let T be a recursively enumerable theory extending Elementary Arithmetic EA. L. D. Beklemishev proved that the Σ2 local reflection principle for T, (T), is conservative over the Σ1 local reflection principle, (T), with respect to boolean combinations of Σ1-sentences; and asked whether this result is best possible. In this work we answer Beklemishev's question by showing that Π2-sentences are not conserved for T = EA + “f is total,” where f is any nondecreasing computable function with elementary graph. We also discuss how this result generalizes to n > 0 and obtain as an application that for n > 0, is conservative over IΣn with respect to Πn+2-sentences.
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