Contribution: Cantor

On Ordinal Notations

Authors:

  • Évelyne Contejean [LRI UMR 8623]
  • Pierre Castéran [LaBRI Université Bordeaux 1 ]

Description:

This contribution contains data structures for ordinals less than Gamma0 under Cantor and Veblen normal forms. Well-foundedness is established thanks to RPO with status for generic terms. This contribution also includes termination proofs of Hydra battles and Goodstein sequences as well as a computation of the length of the Goodstein sequence starting from 4 in base 2.

This work is supported by INRIA-Futurs (Logical project-team), CNRS and the French ANR via the A3PAT project (http://www3.iie.cnam.fr/~urbain/a3pat/).

Keywords:

  • ordinals
  • well foundedness
  • termination
  • rpo
  • goodstein sequences

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