Tarski's axioms
Definition
The language has variables for points and two relations. The ternary relation reads " lies between and ". The quaternary relation reads "the segment is congruent to the segment ". Tarski's axioms are the following first-order sentences, each universally closed.
- Reflexivity of congruence: .
- Identity of congruence: if , then .
- Transitivity of congruence: if and , then .
- Identity of betweenness: if , then .
- Pasch: if and , then there is with and .
- Continuity, a schema: let and be formulas in which and are not free. If some has whenever and , then some has whenever and .
- Lower dimension: there are such that none of , , holds.
- Upper dimension: if , , and , then or or .
- Euclid: if , and , then there are with , and .
- Five segments: if , , , , , and , then .
- Segment construction: for all there is with and .
Remarks
Example: the plane , with meaning that is on the closed segment and meaning , satisfies all eleven axioms. Non-example: the line with the same relations fails the lower dimension axiom, since of any three reals one lies between the other two. The models are exactly the planes over real closed fields , with the relations defined as in . The theory they define is complete and decidable. Axiom 9 is a form of the parallel postulate; without it one gets an axiom system for absolute geometry.
Reading path
To understand this page from the ground up, read these 10 pages in order. The foundations come first.
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- no evidence level
- Betweenness concept
- Complete theory concept
- Field concept
- Ordered field concept
- Rational numbers object
- Real numbers object
- Theory concept
- Quantifier elimination for real closed fields statement
- Real closed field example
- Tarski's axioms definition
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| MSC | 51M05, 03B30, 03B25 |
| Defines | Tarski's axioms |
| Uses | Betweenness, Theory, Complete theory, Real closed field |
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