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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 120 6 a Solution by
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Let be a nonstandard model of the Theory of true arithmetic whose carrier is , and suppose for contradiction that the graphs of and are decidable. Because these operations are total, searching their decidable graphs computes their output on any pair of carrier elements.
Choose disjoint recursively inseparable sets that are computably enumerable, with primitive recursive stage predicates and . Let be nonstandard. True arithmetic proves finite sequence coding, so inside there is an element such that, for every ,where is the th prime. This can be obtained by taking the product of the selected primes internally; it is the same finite coding mechanism as Gödel beta-function sequence coding.
Define the external setThis set is decidable from the assumed operations. For fixed standard , compute the model element . The division algorithm in gives unique and a remainder among the finitely many standard residuessuch that . Dovetail the search over and these finitely many residues, using the computable model operations. It eventually finds the unique remainder, and exactly when that remainder is zero.
If , it enters at a standard stage below the nonstandard , so . If , the true arithmetical sentence asserting that the two enumerations are disjoint holds in , so cannot enter the coded -set below ; hence . Thuscontradicting recursive inseparability. The two operation graphs therefore cannot both be decidable. This is the recursively inseparable-set proof of Tennenbaum theorem.
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