Rosser provability predicate 2026-10-31
A Rosser provability predicate adds a bounded proof-order test to an arithmetical provability predicate: a proof of the sentence must occur before every proof of its negation. For a consistent theory it has the same standard extension as ordinary provability. Internally its behavior can differ: arithmetic proves by splitting proof codes before and after a fixed proof of . This does not establish the usual consistency statement for ordinary provability.
Sigma-1 completeness 2026-10-31
An arithmetic theory is Sigma-1 complete when it proves every true Sigma-1 formula that is a sentence. A genuine finite proof gives a true existential assertion that a code is a proof; Sigma-1 completeness therefore supplies the external necessitation clause for the usual arithmetical provability predicate. Its formalized version says that, for each Sigma-1 sentence , . Applying this to a provability assertion, which is itself Sigma-1, gives the third of the Hilbert-Bernays-Löb derivability conditions.