Cofinal Extensions and Coded Sets

Abstract

Let M be a model of Peano Arithmetic that is countably generated over an exponentially closed cut I. We characterize those sets X of subsets of I for which there is a finitely (or countably) generated cofinal extension N of M such that I is the Greatest Common Initial Segment of M and N and X is the set of subsets of I coded by the extension. We also characterize such X for which the extension N can be, in addition, one of the following: non-filling; filling; n-filling.