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March 12, 20260 citationsOpen Access

The Axiom Profile of Computation

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LCLarsen James Close

Key Points

  • The study aims to classify the axiomatic foundations of significant theorems in computability theory.
  • Formalization of theorems in Lean 4
  • Categorical framework applied to computability theory
  • Evaluation of core diagonal and fixed-point theorems
  • Core theorems found to be constructive with zero axioms
  • Rice's theorem identified at the Markov boundary
  • Full logical determination appears at excluded middle

Abstract

We report the axiom profiles of computability theory's central theorems when formalized from the equational theory of monoidal closed categories in Lean 4. Starting from a common categorical formalization, we find that core diagonal and fixed-point theorems — the Y combinator, Kleene's recursion theorem, halting undecidability, both Gödel incompleteness theorems, and Myhill's isomorphism theorem — are constructive (zero axioms); Rice's theorem sits exactly at a Markov boundary; and full logical determination first appears at excluded middle (Post's backward direction, whose dovetail totality condition we prove equivalent to EM). The partition tracks three regimes of the double-negation monad's counit within the fourth level of the fixed-point derivation, where self-indexing introduces extensional equivalence. Verified with twenty Lean 4 files (zero sorry, zero Classical.choice, zero custom axioms). Companion formalization archived at DOI:10.5281/zenodo.18915083.

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Larsen James Close (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69b2588496eeacc4fcec839dhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18916997
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