scholarly journals Amenable equivalence relations and Turing degrees

1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Kechris

In [12] Slaman and Steel posed the following problem:Assume ZF + DC + AD. Suppose we have a function assigning to each Turing degree d a linear order <d of d. Then must the rationals embed order preservingly in <d for a cone of d's?They had already obtained a partial answer to this question by showing that there is no such d ↦ <d with <d of order type ζ = ω* + ω on a cone. Already the possibility that <d has order type ζ · ζ was left open.We use here, ideas and methods associated with the concept of amenability (of groups, actions, equivalence relations, etc.) to prove some general results from which one can obtain a positive answer to the above problem.

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 392-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
NIKOLAY BAZHENOV

We study autostability spectra relative to strong constructivizations (SC-autostability spectra). For a decidable structure$\mathcal{S}$, the SC-autostability spectrum of$\mathcal{S}$is the set of all Turing degrees capable of computing isomorphisms among arbitrary decidable copies of$\mathcal{S}$. The degree of SC-autostability for$\mathcal{S}$is the least degree in the spectrum (if such a degree exists).We prove that for a computable successor ordinal α, every Turing degree c.e. in and above0(α)is the degree of SC-autostability for some decidable structure. We show that for an infinite computable ordinal β, every Turing degree c.e. in and above0(2β+1)is the degree of SC-autostability for some discrete linear order. We prove that the set of all PA-degrees is an SC-autostability spectrum. We also obtain similar results for autostability spectra relative ton-constructivizations.


1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 681-688
Author(s):  
Henry A. Kierstead

If σ is the order type of a recursive linear order which has a nontrivial automorphism, we let denote the least complexity in the arithmetical hierarchy such that every recursive order of type σ has a nontrivial automorphism of complexity . In Chapter 16 of his book Linear orderings [R], Rosenstein discussed the problem of determining for certain order types σ. For example Rosenstein proved that , where ζ is the order type of the integers, by constructing a recursive linear order of type ζ which has no nontrivial Σ1-automorphism and showing that every recursive linear order of type ζ has a nontrivial Π1-automorphism. Rosenstein also considered linear orders of order type 2 · η, where 2 is the order type of a two-element chain and η is the order type of the rational numbers. It is easily seen that any recursive linear order of type 2 · η has a nontrivial ⊿2-automorphism; he showed that there is a recursive linear order of type 2 · η that has no nontrivial Σ1-automorphism. This left the question, posed in [R] and also by Lerman and Rosenstein in [LR], of whether or ⊿2. The main result of this article is that :


1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 878-887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Copestake

The structure of the Turing degrees of generic and n-generic sets has been studied fairly extensively, especially for n = 1 and n = 2. The original formulation of 1-generic set in terms of recursively enumerable sets of strings is due to D. Posner [11], and much work has since been done, particularly by C. G. Jockusch and C. T. Chong (see [5] and [6]).In the enumeration degrees (see definition below), attention has previously been restricted to generic sets and functions. J. Case used genericity for many of the results in his thesis [1]. In this paper we develop a notion of 1-generic partial function, and study the structure and characteristics of such functions in the enumeration degrees. We find that the e-degree of a 1-generic function is quasi-minimal. However, there are no e-degrees minimal in the 1-generic e-degrees, since if a 1-generic function is recursively split into finitely or infinitely many parts the resulting functions are e-independent (in the sense defined by K. McEvoy [8]) and 1-generic. This result also shows that any recursively enumerable partial ordering can be embedded below any 1-generic degree.Many results in the Turing degrees have direct parallels in the enumeration degrees. Applying the minimal Turing degree construction to the partial degrees (the e-degrees of partial functions) produces a total partial degree ae which is minimal-like; that is, all functions in degrees below ae have partial recursive extensions.


1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 1043-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Millar

This paper contains an example of a decidable theory which has1) only a countable number of countable models (up to isomorphism);2) a decidable saturated model; and3) a countable homogeneous model that is not decidable.By the results in [1] and [2], this can happen if and only if the set of types realized by the homogeneous model (the type spectrum of the model) is not .If Γ and Σ are types of a theory T, define Γ ◁ Σ to mean that any model of T realizing Γ must realize Σ. In [3] a decidable theory is constructed that has only countably many countable models, only recursive types, but whose countable saturated model is not decidable. This is easy to do if the restriction on the number of countable models is lifted; the difficulty arises because the set of types must be recursively complex, and yet sufficiently related to control the number of countable models. In [3] the desired theory T is such thatis a linear order with order type ω*. Also, the set of complete types of T is not . The last feature ensures that the countable saturated model is not decidable; the first feature allows the number of countable models to be controlled.


2001 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 470-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Miller

AbstractSlaman and Wehner have constructed structures which distinguish the computable Turing degree 0 from the noncomputable degrees, in the sense that the spectrum of each structure consists precisely of the noncomputable degrees. Downey has asked if this can be done for an ordinary type of structure such as a linear order. We show that there exists a linear order whose spectrum includes every noncomputable degree, but not 0. Since our argument requires the technique of permitting below a set, we include a detailed explantion of the mechanics and intuition behind this type of permitting.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREW MARKS

We show that polynomial time Turing equivalence and a large class of other equivalence relations from computational complexity theory are universal countable Borel equivalence relations. We then discuss ultrafilters on the invariant Borel sets of these equivalence relations which are related to Martin's ultrafilter on the Turing degrees.


1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 753-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold T. Hodes

AbstractWhere AR is the set of arithmetic Turing degrees, 0(ω) is the least member of {a(2) ∣ a is an upper bound on AR}. This situation is quite different if we examine HYP, the set of hyperarithmetic degrees. We shall prove (Corollary 1) that there is an a, an upper bound on HYP, whose hyperjump is the degree of Kleene's . This paper generalizes this example, using an iteration of the jump operation into the transfinite which is based on results of Jensen and is detailed in [3] and [4]. In § 1 we review the basic definitions from [3] which are needed to state the general results.


2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-167
Author(s):  
ANGSHENG LI ◽  
WEILIN LI ◽  
YICHENG PAN ◽  
LINQING TANG

We show that there exist c.e. bounded Turing degrees a, b such that 0 < a < 0′, and that for any c.e. bounded Turing degree x, we have b ∨ x = 0′ if and only if x ≥ a. The result gives an unexpected definability theorem in the structure of bounded Turing reducibility.


1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Lerman

Martin [4, Theorems 1 and 2] proved that a Turing degree a is the degree of a maximal set if, and only if, a′ = 0″. Lachlan has shown that maximal sets have minimal many-one degrees [2, §1] and that every nonrecursive r.e. Turing degree contains a minimal many-one degree [2, Theorem 4]. Our aim here is to show that any r.e. Turing degree a of a maximal set contains an infinite number of maximal sets whose many-one degrees are pairwise incomparable; hence such Turing degrees contain an infinite number of distinct minimal many-one degrees. This theorem has been proved by Yates [6, Theorem 5] in the case when a = 0′.The need for this theorem first came to our attention as a result of work done by the author [3, Theorem 2.3]. There we looked at the structure / obtained from the recursive functions of one variable under the equivalence relation f ~ g if, and only if, f(x) = g(x) a.e., that is, for all but finitely many x ∈ , where M is a maximal set, and M is its complement. We showed that /1 ≡ /2 if, and only if, 1 =m2, i.e., 1. and 2 have the same many-one degree. However, it might be possible that some Turing degree of a maximal set contains exactly one many-one degree of a maximal set. Theorem 1 was proved to show that this was not the case, and hence that the theory of / is not an invariant of Turing degree.


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