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diff --git a/content/zettel/4b2.md b/content/zettel/4b2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a68b86 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/zettel/4b2.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ ++++ +title = "Arithmetic Hierarchy" +author = "Yann Herklotz" +tags = [] +categories = [] +backlinks = ["4b1"] +forwardlinks = [] +zettelid = "4b2" ++++ + +This is a hierarchy constructed in the following way, where $k$ is the +type. $k=0$ is the type of $\mathbb{N}$, whereas $k=1$ gives the type of +$\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$: + +- the formula is $\Sigma^k_{n+1}$ if the outermost quantifier is + $\exists^k$, and there are $n$ alternations between blocks of + $\exists^k$ and $\forall^k$ at the front of the formula. + +- the formula is $\Pi^k_{n+1}$ if the outermost quantifier is + $\forall^k$, and there are $n$ alternations between blocks of + $\exists^k$ and $\forall^k$ at the front of the formula. |