Intermediate β-r.e. degrees and the half-jump

1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 790-796
Author(s):  
Steven Homer

In his thesis [2] Sy Friedman showed that for any inadmissible ordinal β there is an easily definable β-r.e. degree, 01/2, with β-degree strictly between 0 and 0′. In this paper we define, for some weakly admissible β, a β-r.e. degree 03/4 intermediate between 01/2 and 0′. This definition is given using the machinery developed by Maass [6], [7] to study the β-r.e. degrees.A weak jump for β-recursion theory, the ½-jump, was first defined by Friedman [4] and has been studied by Sacks and Homer [5]. The degree 03/4 is of interest because of the way it interacts with the half-jump. In particular 03/4 forms the boundary between the half-jump of “hyperregular” and “nonhyperregular” β-r.e. degrees less than 01/2. One consequence of these results is that there are weakly inadmissible β for which either the jump theorem or the density theorem fails.Much of this paper is based on earlier work in this area by Sy Friedman and Wolfgang Maass. I would like to thank Gerald Sacks for many helpful conversations and comments concerning this work.

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
Cheng Peng

AbstractIn this thesis, we study Turing degrees in the context of classical recursion theory. What we are interested in is the partially ordered structures $\mathcal {D}_{\alpha }$ for ordinals $\alpha <\omega ^2$ and $\mathcal {D}_{a}$ for notations $a\in \mathcal {O}$ with $|a|_{o}\geq \omega ^2$ .The dissertation is motivated by the $\Sigma _{1}$ -elementary substructure problem: Can one structure in the following structures $\mathcal {R}\subsetneqq \mathcal {D}_{2}\subsetneqq \dots \subsetneqq \mathcal {D}_{\omega }\subsetneqq \mathcal {D}_{\omega +1}\subsetneqq \dots \subsetneqq \mathcal {D(\leq \textbf {0}')}$ be a $\Sigma _{1}$ -elementary substructure of another? For finite levels of the Ershov hierarchy, Cai, Shore, and Slaman [Journal of Mathematical Logic, vol. 12 (2012), p. 1250005] showed that $\mathcal {D}_{n}\npreceq _{1}\mathcal {D}_{m}$ for any $n < m$ . We consider the problem for transfinite levels of the Ershov hierarchy and show that $\mathcal {D}_{\omega }\npreceq _{1}\mathcal {D}_{\omega +1}$ . The techniques in Chapters 2 and 3 are motivated by two remarkable theorems, Sacks Density Theorem and the d.r.e. Nondensity Theorem.In Chapter 1, we first briefly review the background of the research areas involved in this thesis, and then review some basic definitions and classical theorems. We also summarize our results in Chapter 2 to Chapter 4. In Chapter 2, we show that for any $\omega $ -r.e. set D and r.e. set B with $D<_{T}B$ , there is an $\omega +1$ -r.e. set A such that $D<_{T}A<_{T}B$ . In Chapter 3, we show that for some notation a with $|a|_{o}=\omega ^{2}$ , there is an incomplete $\omega +1$ -r.e. set A such that there are no a-r.e. sets U with $A<_{T}U<_{T}K$ . In Chapter 4, we generalize above results to higher levels (up to $\varepsilon _{0}$ ). We investigate Lachlan sets and minimal degrees on transfinite levels and show that for any notation a, there exists a $\Delta ^{0}_{2}$ -set A such that A is of minimal degree and $A\not \equiv _T U$ for all a-r.e. sets U.Abstract prepared by Cheng Peng.E-mail: [email protected]


1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 1023-1041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Montagna ◽  
Andrea Sorbi

Recursion categories have been proposed by Di Paola and Heller in [DPH] as the basis for a category-theoretic approach to recursion theory, in the context of a more general and ambitious project of a purely algebraic treatment of incompleteness phenomena. The way in which the classical notion of creative set is rendered in this new category-theoretic framework plays, therefore, a central role. This is done in [DPH] (Definition 8.1) by defining the notion of creative domains or, rather, domains which are creative relative to some criterion: thus, in a recursion category, every criterion provides a notion of creativeness.A basic result on creative domains (cf. [DPH, Theorem 8.13]) is that, under certain assumptions, a version of the classical result, due to Myhill [MYH], stating that every creative set is complete, holds: in a recursion category with equality (i.e. exists for every object X) and having enough atoms, every domain which is creative with respect to atoms is also complete.


Author(s):  
Raymond M. Smullyan

Theorems A and B of the last chapter were proved using previous results about generativity, Kleene pairs, complete effective inseparability, and double generativity. Yet the two theorems made no mention of these notions; they referred only to the notions of universality, double universality and semi-double universality. [These three notions, by the way, unlike the four notions mentioned above, were denned without reference to any indexing; they are what we would call index-free.] Is it not possible to give more direct proofs of Theorems A and B that do not require all the antecedent machinery of Chapters 4 and 5? We are about to show that it is possible; we will simply transfer Shepherdson’s arguments about first-order systems to recursion theory itself. We shall prove some “recursive function-theoretic” analogues of Shepherdson’s theorems which will provide new proofs of Theorems A and B (in fact, a strengthening of Theorem A will result).


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
Yong Liu

AbstractThis dissertation is highly motivated by d.r.e. Nondensity Theorem, which is interesting in two perspectives. One is that it contrasts Sacks Density Theorem, and hence shows that the structures of r.e. degrees and d.r.e. degrees are different. The other is to investigate what other properties a maximal degree can have.In Chapter 1, we briefly review the backgrounds of Recursion Theory which motivate the topics of this dissertation.In Chapter 2, we introduce the notion of $(m,n)$ -cupping degree. It is closely related to the notion of maximal d.r.e. degree. In fact, a $(2,2)$ -cupping degree is maximal d.r.e. degree. We then prove that there exists an isolated $(2,\omega )$ -cupping degree by combining strategies for maximality and isolation with some efforts.Chapter 3 is part of a joint project with Steffen Lempp, Yiqun Liu, Keng Meng Ng, Cheng Peng, and Guohua Wu. In this chapter, we prove that any finite boolean algebra can be embedded into d.r.e. degrees as a final segment. We examine the proof of d.r.e. Nondensity Theorem and make developments to the technique to make it work for our theorem. The goal of the project is to see what lattice can be embedded into d.r.e. degrees as a final segment, as we observe that the technique has potential be developed further to produce other interesting results.Abstract prepared by Yong Liu.E-mail: [email protected]


1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1393-1402
Author(s):  
Harold T. Hodes

Much of the literature on the model theory of modal logics suffers from two weaknesses. Firstly, there is a lack of generality; theorems are proved piecemeal about this or that modal logic, or at best small classes of logics. Much of the literature, e.g. [1], [2], and [3], confines attention to structures with the expanding domain property (i.e., if wRu then Ā(w) ⊆ Ā(u)); the syntactic counterpart of this restriction is assumption of the converse Barcan scheme, a move which offers (in Russell's phrase) “all the advantages of theft over honest toil”. Secondly, I think there has been a failure to hit on the best ways of extending classical model theoretic notions to modal contexts. This weakness makes the literature boring, since a large part of the interest of modal model theory resides in the way in which classical model theoretic notions extend, and in some cases divide, in the modal setting. (The relation between α-recursion theory and classical recursion theory is analogous to that between modal model theory and classical model theory. Much of the work in α-recursion theory involved finding the right definitions (e.g., of recursive-in) and separating concepts which collapse in the classical case (e.g. of finiteness and boundedness).)The notion of a well-behaved modal logic is introduced in §3 to make possible rather general results; of course our attention will not be restricted to structures with the expanding domain property. Rather than prove piecemeal that familiar modal logics are well-behaved, in §4 we shall consider a class of “special” modal logics, which obviously includes many familiar logics and which is included in the class of well-behaved modal logics.


1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia J. Groszek ◽  
Michael E. Mytilinaios ◽  
Theodore A. Slaman

AbstractThe Sacks Density Theorem [7] states that the Turing degrees of the recursively enumerable sets are dense. We show that the Density Theorem holds in every model of P− + BΣ2. The proof has two components: a lemma that in any model of P− + BΣ2, if B is recursively enumerable and incomplete then IΣ1 holds relative to B and an adaptation of Shore's [9] blocking technique in α-recursion theory to models of arithmetic.


2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.


2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.


1976 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 233-254
Author(s):  
H. M. Maitzen

Ap stars are peculiar in many aspects. During this century astronomers have been trying to collect data about these and have found a confusing variety of peculiar behaviour even from star to star that Struve stated in 1942 that at least we know that these phenomena are not supernatural. A real push to start deeper theoretical work on Ap stars was given by an additional observational evidence, namely the discovery of magnetic fields on these stars by Babcock (1947). This originated the concept that magnetic fields are the cause for spectroscopic and photometric peculiarities. Great leaps for the astronomical mankind were the Oblique Rotator model by Stibbs (1950) and Deutsch (1954), which by the way provided mathematical tools for the later handling pulsar geometries, anti the discovery of phase coincidence of the extrema of magnetic field, spectrum and photometric variations (e.g. Jarzebowski, 1960).


Author(s):  
W.M. Stobbs

I do not have access to the abstracts of the first meeting of EMSA but at this, the 50th Anniversary meeting of the Electron Microscopy Society of America, I have an excuse to consider the historical origins of the approaches we take to the use of electron microscopy for the characterisation of materials. I have myself been actively involved in the use of TEM for the characterisation of heterogeneities for little more than half of that period. My own view is that it was between the 3rd International Meeting at London, and the 1956 Stockholm meeting, the first of the European series , that the foundations of the approaches we now take to the characterisation of a material using the TEM were laid down. (This was 10 years before I took dynamical theory to be etched in stone.) It was at the 1956 meeting that Menter showed lattice resolution images of sodium faujasite and Hirsch, Home and Whelan showed images of dislocations in the XlVth session on “metallography and other industrial applications”. I have always incidentally been delighted by the way the latter authors misinterpreted astonishingly clear thickness fringes in a beaten (”) foil of Al as being contrast due to “large strains”, an error which they corrected with admirable rapidity as the theory developed. At the London meeting the research described covered a broad range of approaches, including many that are only now being rediscovered as worth further effort: however such is the power of “the image” to persuade that the above two papers set trends which influence, perhaps too strongly, the approaches we take now. Menter was clear that the way the planes in his image tended to be curved was associated with the imaging conditions rather than with lattice strains, and yet it now seems to be common practice to assume that the dots in an “atomic resolution image” can faithfully represent the variations in atomic spacing at a localised defect. Even when the more reasonable approach is taken of matching the image details with a computed simulation for an assumed model, the non-uniqueness of the interpreted fit seems to be rather rarely appreciated. Hirsch et al., on the other hand, made a point of using their images to get numerical data on characteristics of the specimen they examined, such as its dislocation density, which would not be expected to be influenced by uncertainties in the contrast. Nonetheless the trends were set with microscope manufacturers producing higher and higher resolution microscopes, while the blind faith of the users in the image produced as being a near directly interpretable representation of reality seems to have increased rather than been generally questioned. But if we want to test structural models we need numbers and it is the analogue to digital conversion of the information in the image which is required.


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