arXiv · 2201.04536
Functorial Fast-Growing Hierarchies
Abstract
Fast-growing hierarchies are sequences of functions obtained through various processes similar to the ones that yield multiplication from addition, exponentiation from multiplication, etc. We observe that fast-growing hierarchies can be naturally extended to functors on the categories of natural numbers and of linear orders. We show that the categorical extensions of binary fast-growing hierarchies to ordinals are isomorphic to denotation systems given by ordinal collapsing functions, thus establishing a connection between two fundamental concepts in Proof Theory. Using this fact, we obtain a restatement of the subsystem $\Pi^1_1$-CA$_0$ of analysis as a higher-type wellordering principle.
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J. P. Aguilera, F. Pakhomov, A. Weiermann. 2022-01-12. Functorial Fast-Growing Hierarchies. https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04536
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