TITLE: Is (Z,+,0,1,P2,P3) decidable?
QUESTION [16 upvotes]: Is Presburger arithmetic, augmented with two unary predicates P2, P3, for powers of 2 and powers of 3 respectively, decidable? 
I know that adding just one of P2, P3 to Presburger keeps it decidable, and I'm asking about both. 
If I understood correctly the table in the end of http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/~point/papiers/Pres.pdf, it is unknown. Is this truly unknown?

REPLY [16 votes]: Christian Schulz (a grad student at Urbana) and Philipp Hieronymi have recently shown that $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,2^{\mathbb{N}},3^{\mathbb{N}})$ is undecidable. And I believe they prove this for $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,m^{\mathbb{N}},n^{\mathbb{N}})$ for $m,n \in \mathbb{N}$ with $\log_m n$ irrational. The paper isn't out yet but the result has been presented in talks (for example, SIU Pure Mathematics Conference in May 2019).
Edit: I am going to add an explanation of one reason why this result is interesting.
Let $m,n$ be natural numbers $\ge 2$. A subset $X$ of $\mathbb{Z}^k$ is $n$-recognizable if the set of $n$-ary expansions of elements of $X$ is recognized by some finite automaton. For example $n^\mathbb{N}$ is $n$-recognizable, the set of odious numbers (numbers with an odd number of $1$'s in their binary expansion) is $2$-recognizable. The Cobham–Semanov theorem states that if $m,n$ are multiplicatively independent and $X$ is both $m$- and $n$-recognizable then $X$ is definable $(\mathbb{Z},+,<)$. So in particular if $k = 1$ then $X$ is a finite union of arithmetic progressions.
There is a connection to logic. Let $V_n$ be the ternary predicate on $\mathbb{Z}$ where $V_n(d,j,l)$ holds if $d$ is the $j$th $n$-ary digit of $l$. Then $X$ is $n$-recognizable iff $X$ is definable in $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_n)$. This is used to show that $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_n)$ is decidable. (And in fact decidability of these structures has had notable mathematical applications, see for example the paper Madhusudan–Nowotka–Rajasekaran–Shallit, Lagrange’s Theorem for Binary Squares, MFCS 2018, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2018.18, arXiv:1710.04247.)
Villemaire showed that $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_n,V_m)$ is undecidable when $m,n$ are multiplicatively independent. Bes showed that if $X$ is definable in $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_n)$ and not definable in $(\mathbb{Z},+,<)$ then $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,X)$ defines $n^\mathbb{N}$. So putting it together we see that if $m,n$ are multiplicatively independent, $X$ is $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_n)$-definable, $Y \subseteq \mathbb{Z}^l$ is $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_m)$-definable, and neither $X$ nor $Y$ is definable in $(\mathbb{Z},+,<)$, then $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,X,Y)$ is undecidable. This is a mutual generalization of Cobham–Semenov and Villemaire's result.
It should be noted that $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,n^\mathbb{N})$ does not define $V_n$. In fact these two structures are separated by a deep dividing line, $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,n^{\mathbb{N}})$ is NIP and $(\mathbb{Z},+,<,V_n)$ is as IP as you can get.