# Closure Properties of Weak Systems of Bounded Arithmetic

@inproceedings{Kolokolova2005ClosurePO,
title={Closure Properties of Weak Systems of Bounded Arithmetic},
author={Antonina Kolokolova},
booktitle={CSL},
year={2005}
}
• A. Kolokolova
• Published in CSL 22 August 2005
• Computer Science, Mathematics
In this paper we study the properties of systems of bounded arithmetic capturing small complexity classes and state conditions sufficient for such systems to capture the corresponding complexity class tightly. Our class of systems of bounded arithmetic is the class of second-order systems with comprehension axiom for a syntactically restricted class of formulas Φ ⊂ Σ$_{\rm 1}^{B}$ based on a logic in the descriptive complexity setting. This work generalizes the results of [8] and [9]. We…
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