University Seminars:Logic Across Disciplines-Effective Ultraproducts and Their Applications

Title: Effective Ultraproducts and Their Applications
Speaker: Rumen Dimitrov, Western Illinois University
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Date and Time: Thursday February 8, 12:30-1:30
Place: Phillips Hall (801 22^nd Street), Room 730

Abstract: We use cohesive (effectively indecomposable) sets to build nonstandard versions of the field of rational numbers. We study the isomorphism types of these models when the complements of the cohesive sets are computably enumerable. Using Koenigsmann’s work on Hilbert's Tenth Problem we give a new proof that these fields are rigid.