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Past exam of the model theory and Gödel's incompleteness theorems course of the University of Oxford 2010 B 6 d Solution by
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For the pure orders, yes. Both structures satisfy the theory of dense linear orders without endpoints. By quantifier elimination for dense linear orders without endpoints, each formula is equivalent to a quantifier-free order formula. Inclusion of the rationals into the reals preserves and reflects all such formulas, hence is elementary:
With a common named unit, yes. In general an elementary substructure remains elementary when elements already in the substructure are named by new constants. A formula using the new constant is just an old-language formula with that common element as a parameter. Since , this applies directly.
With the real constant interpreted by , no choice inside the rationals works for inclusion. A substructure embedding must preserve every constant. The inclusion would send a rational interpretation to that same real , whereas the target constant is . Thus the expanded rational structure is not even a substructure of the expanded real one.
This last failure concerns the specified inclusion. There is an abstract elementary embedding carrying a chosen rational to : the increasing map has that property, and its image is a dense order without endpoints inside the reals. Quantifier elimination makes the embedding elementary, but its image is a translated copy of the rationals rather than the original rational subset.
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