THE STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY OF MODELS OF ARITHMETIC

Abstract

Abstract We calculate the possible Scott ranks of countable models of Peano arithmetic. We show that no non-standard model can have Scott rank less than $\omega $ and that non-standard models of true arithmetic must have Scott rank greater than $\omega $ . Other than that there are no restrictions. By giving a reduction via $\Delta ^{\mathrm {in}}_{1}$ bi-interpretability from the class of linear orderings to the canonical structural $\omega $ -jump of models of an arbitrary completion T of $\mathrm {PA}$ we show that every countable ordinal $\alpha>\omega $ is realized as the Scott rank of a model of T.