McBeth, C. B. R. (1973) Fundamental sequences in the second and third ordinal number classes.
Full text access: Open
The text is concerned with the definition and investigation of some classes of ordinal valued-functions; and with the determining of a particular assignment function O. This function assigns to each limit ordinal alpha smaller than a constant theta and belonging to the second number class a fundamental sequence [diagram] that is, a strictly increasing sequence satisfying [diagram].
The operations used to determine O are derived from a class of functions [diagram]. Since generalizes the standard ordinal arithmetic operations,some of the properties of the are studied, together with the operations gammaalpha which are generalizationsof transfinite sum and product. Also investigated is a related class of number-theoretic functions, in this context O is an arbitrary assignment bounded by o in place of [diagram].
It is proved that the functions are normal in the second argument, and these functions are compared with a hierarchy of normal functions obtained by Veblen's process of iteration. The provide a natural means of extending the notion of epsilon number, and some of the properties of the generalized epsilon numbers are presented. The function of [diagram] is normal, and the notation [diagram] is adopted for the sequence of countable fixed points of the function. The generalized epsilon numbers determine a hierarchical classification of limit numbers, and on this basis a normal form is determined for each, and thence the function O is defined by transfinite recursion.
This is a Accepted version This version's date is: 1973 This item is not peer reviewed
https://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/9fb5f686-e5a5-4e4c-ad12-b806cfe03564/1/
Deposited by () on 31-Jan-2017 in Royal Holloway Research Online.Last modified on 31-Jan-2017
Digitised in partnership with ProQuest, 2015-2016. Institution: University of London, Bedford College (United Kingdom).