Locally Computable Structures

  • Authors:
  • Russell G. Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Queens College --- C.U.N.Y., 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, New York 11367, U.S.A. and Doctoral Program in Computer Science, The Graduate Center of C.U.N.Y., 365 Fifth A ...

  • Venue:
  • CiE '07 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computability in Europe: Computation and Logic in the Real World
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We introduce the notion of a locally computable structure, a natural way of generalizing the notions of computable model theory to uncountable structures ${\mathcal{S}}$ by presenting the finitely generated substructures of $\S$ effectively. Our discussion emphasizes definitions and examples, but does prove two significant results. First, our notion of m-extensional local computability of ${\mathcal{S}}$ ensures that the Σn-theory of ${\mathcal{S}}$ will be Σnfor all n≤ m+ 1. Second, our notion of perfect local computability is equivalent (for countable structures) to the classic definition of computable presentability.