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We prove the claim by structural induction for primitive recursive functions. A formula is bounded when every quantifier is a bounded quantifier; this is a Delta-0 formula. The graphs of the initial functions have quantifier-free definitions:

Suppose $f(\mathbf{x})=g(h_1(\mathbf{x}),\dots ,h_m(\mathbf{x}))$ and the graphs of $g,h_1,\dots ,h_m$ have existential bounded definitions. Introduce variables $u_1,\dots ,u_m$ for the intermediate values and conjoin the graph formulasPulling all unrestricted existential witnesses to the front leaves a bounded matrix, so the required form is preserved by composition.

For primitive recursion, use Gödel beta-function sequence coding. The relationis bounded in the language of ordered rings. Given any finite sequence $a_0,\dots ,a_n$, choose $c$ larger than all its entries and divisible by $1,\dots ,n+1$. The moduli $1+(i+1)c$ are pairwise coprime, so the Chinese remainder theorem supplies $b$ with $\beta (b,c,i)=a_i$ for every $i\le n$.

Supposeand the induction hypothesis gives existential bounded graph formulas for $g$ and $h$. Then $y=f(\mathbf{x},n)$ exactly when there are $b,c$ coding values $a_0,\dots ,a_n$, together with a common witness bound $W$, such that:Write each $a_i$ using $\beta (b,c,i)$, bound the variables representing $a_i$ by $1+(n+1)c$, and bound every witness used by the graph formulas for $g$ and $h$ by $W$. All quantifiers checking the displayed finite recursion are then bounded; only $b,c,W$ and the finitely many outer coding witnesses are unrestricted existential variables. Conversely, any code passing these bounded checks satisfies the recursion equations, and induction on $i\le n$ forces its $i$th entry to be $f(\mathbf{x},i)$. This proves the existential bounded representation of a primitive recursive function.

Let $M$ be a nonstandard model of the Theory of true arithmetic whose carrier is $\mathbb{N}$, and suppose for contradiction that the graphs of ${+}^M$ and ${\times }^M$ 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 $A,B$ that are computably enumerable, with primitive recursive stage predicates $E_A(n,s)$ and $E_B(n,s)$. Let $c\in M$ be nonstandard. True arithmetic proves finite sequence coding, so inside $M$ there is an element $a$ such that, for every $i<c$,where $p_i$ is the $i$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 $n$, compute the model element $p_n^M$. The division algorithm in $M$ gives unique $q$ and a remainder among the finitely many standard residuessuch that $a=q{\times }^M{p}_n^M+r$. Dovetail the search over $q$ and these finitely many residues, using the computable model operations. It eventually finds the unique remainder, and $n\in C$ exactly when that remainder is zero.

If $n\in A$, it enters $A$ at a standard stage below the nonstandard $c$, so $n\in C$. If $n\in B$, the true arithmetical sentence asserting that the two enumerations are disjoint holds in $M$, so $n$ cannot enter the coded $A$-set below $c$; hence $n\notin C$. Thuscontradicting recursive inseparability. The two operation graphs therefore cannot both be decidable. This is the recursively inseparable-set proof of Tennenbaum theorem.