This book describes a program of research in computable structure theory. The goal is to find definability conditions corresponding to bounds on complexity which persist under isomorphism. The results apply to familiar kinds of structures (groups, fields, vector spaces, linear orderings Boolean algebras, Abelian p-groups, models of arithmetic). There are many interesting results already, but there are also many natural questions still to be answered. The book is self-contained in that it includes necessary background material from recursion theory (ordinal notations, the hyperarithmetical hierarchy) and model theory (infinitary formulas, consistency properties).
- ISBN10 0080529526
- ISBN13 9780080529523
- Publish Date 16 June 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Elsevier Science & Technology
- Format eBook
- Pages 363
- Language English