HamletHenna comments on Formalising cousin_it's bounded versions of Gödel's theorem - Less Wrong

10 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 29 June 2012 11:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 June 2012 09:48:10AM *  10 points [-]

I've been searching google scholar and haven't found these exact results. Most of the related papers measure proof length in terms of steps instead of symbols.

Exceptions which I'm still reviewing are

P. Pudlágk, "On the length of proofs of finitistic consistency statements in first order theories": www.math.cas.cz/~pudlak/fin-con.pdf

R. Parikh, "Existence and feasibility in arithmetic", which I can't find, and

S. Buss, "Bounded Arithmetic, Proof Complexity and Two Papers of Parikh": www.math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/ResearchWeb/parikh/paper.pdf , which reviews the previous Parikh paper and mentions some derived work.

Comment author: cousin_it 30 June 2012 10:22:09AM *  6 points [-]

Your first link seems to be almost exactly what I wanted, and the bounded Löb's theorem should be a simple corollary. Thanks! This really simplifies the task of explaining Löbian cooperation =)

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 June 2012 09:25:06PM 1 point [-]

Cool, thanks for the links!