Prime Models of Theories of Computable Linear Orderings
Status: published in the Proceedings of the American
Mathematical Society 129 (2001) 3079 - 3083.
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Abstract.We answer a long-standing question of Rosenstein by
exhibiting a complete theory of linear orderings with both a
computable model and a prime model, but no computable prime model. The
proof uses the relativized version of the concept of limitwise
monotonic function.
drh@math.uchicago.edu