Index sets of finite classes of recursively enumerable sets

1969 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Hay
Keyword(s):  
Index Set ◽  
Recursive Functions ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Index Sets ◽  
Recursively Enumerable Sets ◽  
Partial Recursive Functions ◽  
Recursive Isomorphism ◽  
Standard Enumeration

Let q0, q1,… be a standard enumeration of all partial recursive functions of one variable. For each i, let wi = range qi and for any recursively enumerable (r.e.) set α, let θα = {n | wn = α}. If A is a class of r.e. sets, let θA = the index set of A = {n | wn ∈ A}. It is the purpose of this paper to classify the possible recursive isomorphism types of index sets of finite classes of r.e. sets. The main theorem will also provide an answer to the question left open in [2] concerning the possible double isomorphism types of pairs (θα, θβ) where α ⊂ β.

Index sets in Ershov's hierarchy

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Grassin
Keyword(s):  
Recursion Theory ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Boolean Combination ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Power Set ◽  
Index Sets ◽  
Recursively Enumerable Sets ◽  
Complete Set ◽  
Recursive Isomorphism

This work is an attempt to characterize the index sets of classes of recursively enumerable sets which are expressible in terms of open sets in the Baire topology on the power set of the set N of natural numbers, usual in recursion theory. Let be a class of subsets of N and be the set of indices of recursively enumerable sets Wх belonging to .A well-known theorem of Rice and Myhill (cf. [5, p. 324, Rice-Shapiro Theorem]) states that is recursively enumerable if and only ifis a r.e. open set. In this case, note that if is not empty and does not contain all recursively enumerable sets, is a complete set. This theorem will be partially extended to classes which are boolean combinations of open sets by the following:(i) There is a canonical boolean combination which represents, namely the shortest among boolean combinations which represent.(ii) The recursive isomorphism type of depends on the length n of this canonical boolean combination (and trivial properties of ); for instance, is recursively isomorphic (in the particular case where is a boolean combination of recursive open sets) to an elementary set combination Yn or Un, constructed from {х ∣ х Wх) and depending on the length n. We can say also that is a complete set in the sense of Ershov's hierarchy [1] (in this particular case).

On complexity properties of recursively enumerable sets

1973 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 579-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Blum ◽  
I. Marques
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Recursive Function ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Partial Recursive Function ◽  
Recursive Functions ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Recursively Enumerable Sets ◽  
Partial Recursive Functions ◽  
Do So

An important goal of complexity theory, as we see it, is to characterize those partial recursive functions and recursively enumerable sets having some given complexity properties, and to do so in terms which do not involve the notion of complexity.As a contribution to this goal, we provide characterizations of the effectively speedable, speedable and levelable [2] sets in purely recursive theoretic terms. We introduce the notion of subcreativeness and show that every program for computing a partial recursive function f can be effectively speeded up on infinitely many integers if and only if the graph of f is subcreative.In addition, in order to cast some light on the concepts of effectively speedable, speedable and levelable sets we show that all maximal sets are levelable (and hence speedable) but not effectively speedable and we exhibit a set which is not levelable in a very strong sense but yet is effectively speedable.

A noninitial segment of index sets

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Hay
Keyword(s):  
Partial Order ◽  
Initial Segment ◽  
Finite Sets ◽  
Index Set ◽  
Difference Hierarchy ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Index Sets ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
Standard Enumeration

Let {Wk}k ≥ 0 be a standard enumeration of all recursively enumerable (r.e.) sets. If A is any class of r.e. sets, let θA denote the index set of A, i.e., θA = {k ∣ Wk ∈ A}. The one-one degrees of index sets form a partial order ℐ which is a proper subordering of the partial order of all one-one degrees. Denote by ⌀ the one-one degree of the empty set, and, if b is the one-one degree of θB, denote by the one-one degree of . Let . Let {Ym}m≥0 be the sequence of index sets of nonempty finite classes of finite sets (classified in [5] and independently, in [2]) and denote by am the one-one degree of Ym. As shown in [2], these degrees are complete at each level of the difference hierarchy generated by the r.e. sets. It was proved in [3] that, for each m ≥ 0,(a) am+1 and ām+1 are incomparable immediate successors of am and ām, and(b) .For m = 0, since Y0 = θ{⌀}, it follows from (a) that(c) .Hence it follows that(d) {⌀, , ao, ā0, a1, ā1 is an initial segment of ℐ.

Kleene index sets and functional m-degrees

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 829-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanleah Mohrherr
Keyword(s):  
Partial Order ◽  
Turing Degree ◽  
Index Set ◽  
Natural Embedding ◽  
Recursive Functions ◽  
Index Sets ◽  
Partial Recursive Functions

AbstractA many-one degree is functional if it contains the index set of some class of partial recursive functions but does not contain an index set of a class of r.e. sets. We give a natural embedding of the r.e. m-degrees into the functional degrees of 0′. There are many functional degrees in 0′ in the sense that every partial-order can be embedded. By generalizing, we show there are many functional degrees in every complete Turing degree.There is a natural tie between the studies of index sets and partial-many-one reducibility. Every partial-many-one degree contains one or two index sets.

A discrete chain of degrees of index sets

1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Hay
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bound ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Truth Table ◽  
Partial Ordering ◽  
Index Set ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Index Sets ◽  
The One ◽  
Standard Enumeration

Let {Wi} be a standard enumeration of all recursively enumerable (r.e.) sets, and for any class A of r.e. sets, let θA denote the index set of A = {n ∣ Wn ∈ A}. (Clearly, .) In [1], the index sets of nonempty finite classes of finite sets were classified under one-one reducibility into an increasing sequence {Ym}, 0 ≤ m < ∞. In this paper we examine further properties of this sequence within the partial ordering of one-one degrees of index sets. The main results are as follows: (1) For each m, Ym < Ym + 1 and < Ym + 1; (2) Ym is incomparable to ; (3) Ym + 1 and ; are immediate successors (among index sets) of Ym and m; (4) the pair (Ym + 1, ) is a “least upper bound” for the pair (Ym, ) in the sense that any successor of both Ym and is ≥ Ym + 1or; (5) the pair (Ym, ) is a “greatest lower bound” for the pair (Ym + 1, ) in the sense that any predecessor of both Ym + 1 and is ≤ Ym or . Since and all Ym are in the bounded truth-table degree of K, this yields some local information about the one-one degrees of index sets which are “at the bottom” in the one-one ordering of index sets.

An invariance notion in recursion theory

1982 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Byerly
Keyword(s):  
Recursion Theory ◽  
Recursive Functions ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Recursively Enumerable Sets ◽  
Partial Recursive Functions

AbstractA set of gödel numbers is invariant if it is closed under automorphisms of (ω, ·), where ω is the set of all gödel numbers of partial recursive functions and · is application (i.e., n · m ≃ φn(m)). The invariant arithmetic sets are investigated, and the invariant recursively enumerable sets and partial recursive functions are partially characterized.

Rice Theorems for ∑n-1 Sets

1977 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 794-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Finite Sets ◽  
Index Set ◽  
Recursively Enumerable ◽  
Recursively Enumerable Sets ◽  
The Difference

In [3] Hay proves generalizations of Rice's Theorem and the Rice-Shapiro Theorem for differences of recursively enumerable sets (d.r.e. sets). The original Rice Theorem [5, p. 3G4, Corollary B] says that the index set of a class C of r.e. sets is recursive if and only if C is empty or C contains all r.e. sets. The Rice-Shapiro Theorem conjectured by Rice [5] and proved independently by McNaughton, Shapiro, and Myhill [4] says that the index set of a class C of r.e. sets is r.e. if and only if C is empty or C consists of all r.e. sets which extend some element of a canonically enumerable class of finite sets. Since a d.r.e. set is a difference of r.e. sets, a d.r.e. set has an index associated with it, namely, the pair of indices of the r.e. sets of which it is the difference.

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