Five papers on reverse mathematics and Ramsey-theoretic principles - C. T. Chong, Theodore A. Slaman, and Yue Yang, The metamathematics of Stable Ramsey’s Theorem for Pairs. Journal of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 27 (2014), no. 3, pp. 863–892. - Manuel Lerman, Reed Solomon, and Henry Towsner, Separating principles below Ramsey’s Theorem for Pairs. Journal of Mathematical Logic, vol. 13 (2013), no. 2, 1350007, 44 pp. - Jiayi Liu, $RT_2^^2$ does not imply WKL0. Journal of Symbolic Logic, vol. 77 (2012), no. 2, pp. 609–620. - Lu Liu, Cone avoiding closed sets. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 367 (2015), no. 3, pp. 1609–1630. - Wei Wang, Some logically weak Ramseyan theorems. Advances in Mathematics, vol. 261 (2014), pp. 1–25.

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-530
Author(s):  
Denis R. Hirschfeldt
2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Daniel Turetsky

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis R. Hirschfeldt ◽  
Richard A. Shore

AbstractWe investigate the complexity of various combinatorial theorems about linear and partial orders, from the points of view of computability theory and reverse mathematics. We focus in particular on the principles ADS (Ascending or Descending Sequence), which states that every infinite linear order has either an infinite descending sequence or an infinite ascending sequence, and CAC (Chain-AntiChain), which states that every infinite partial order has either an infinite chain or an infinite antichain. It is wellknown that Ramsey's Theorem for pairs () splits into a stable version () and a cohesive principle (COH). We show that the same is true of ADS and CAC, and that in their cases the stable versions are strictly weaker than the full ones (which is not known to be the case for and ). We also analyze the relationships between these principles and other systems and principles previously studied by reverse mathematics, such as WKL0, DNR, and BΣ2. We show, for instance, that WKL0 is incomparable with all of the systems we study. We also prove computability-theoretic and conservation results for them. Among these results are a strengthening of the fact, proved by Cholak, Jockusch, and Slaman, that COH is -conservative over the base system RCA0. We also prove that CAC does not imply DNR which, combined with a recent result of Hirschfeldt, Jockusch. Kjos-Hanssen, Lempp, and Slaman, shows that CAC does not imply (and so does not imply ). This answers a question of Cholak, Jockusch, and Slaman.Our proofs suggest that the essential distinction between ADS and CAC on the one hand and on the other is that the colorings needed for our analysis are in some way transitive. We formalize this intuition as the notions of transitive and semitransitive colorings and show that the existence of homogeneous sets for such colorings is equivalent to ADS and CAC, respectively. We finish with several open questions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 1272-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Flood

AbstractIn this paper, we propose a weak regularity principle which is similar to both weak König's lemma and Ramsey's theorem. We begin by studying the computational strength of this principle in the context of reverse mathematics. We then analyze different ways of generalizing this principle.


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