Nonlowness is independent from fickleness

Computability ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Liling Ko

It was recently shown that the computably enumerable (c.e.) degrees that embed the critical triple and the M 5 lattice structure are exactly those that are sufficiently fickle. Therefore the embeddability strength of a c.e. degree has much to do with the degree’s fickleness. Nonlowness is another common measure of degree strength, with nonlow degrees expected to compute more degrees than low ones. We ask if nonlowness and fickleness are independent measures of strength. Downey and Greenberg (A Hierarchy of Turing Degrees: A Transfinite Hierarchy of Lowness Notions in the Computably Enumerable Degrees, Unifying Classes, and Natural Definability (AMS-206) (2020) Princeton University Press) claimed this to be true without proof, so we present one here. We prove the claim by building low and nonlow c.e. sets with arbitrary fickle degrees. Our construction is uniform so the degrees built turn out to be uniformly fickle. We base our proof on our direct construction of a nonlow array computable set. Such sets were always known to exist, but also never constructed directly in any publication we know.

Computability ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Katherine Arthur ◽  
Rod Downey ◽  
Noam Greenberg

In (A Hierarchy of Turing Degrees: A Transfinite Hierarchy of Lowness Notions in the Computably Enumerable Degrees, Unifying Classes, and Natural Definability (2020), Annals of Mathematics Studies, Princeton University Press), Downey and Greenberg define a transfinite hierarchy of low 2 c.e. degrees – the totally α-c.a. degrees, for appropriately small ordinals α. This new hierarchy is of particular interest because it has already given rise to several natural definability results, and provides a new definable antichain in the c.e. degrees. Several levels of this hierarchy contain maximal degrees. We discuss how maximality interacts with upper cones, and the related notion of hierarchy collapse in upper cones. For example, we show that there is a totally ω-c.a. degree above which there is no maximal totally ω-c.a. degree.


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 972-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Wang ◽  
Angsheng Li

AbstractWe say that a computably enumerable (c. e.) degree a is plus-cupping, if for every c.e. degree x with 0 < x ≤ a, there is a c. e. degree y ≠ 0′ such that x ∨ y = 0′. We say that a is n-plus-cupping, if for every c. e. degree x, if 0 < x ≤ a, then there is a lown c. e. degree I such that x ∨ I = 0′. Let PC and PCn be the set of all plus-cupping, and n-plus-cupping c. e. degrees respectively. Then PC1 ⊆ PC2 ⊆ PC3 = PC. In this paper we show that PC1 ⊂ PC2, so giving a nontrivial hierarchy for the plus cupping degrees. The theorem also extends the result of Li, Wu and Zhang [14] showing that LC1 ⊂ LC2, as well as extending the Harrington plus-cupping theorem [8].


2015 ◽  
Vol 144 (4) ◽  
pp. 1735-1744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict Durrant ◽  
Andy Lewis-Pye ◽  
Keng Meng Ng ◽  
James Riley

2001 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 1791-1802
Author(s):  
William C. Calhoun ◽  
Manuel Lerman

Abstract.We show that the lattice L20 is not embeddable into the lattice of ideals of computably enumerable Turing degrees (ℐ), We define a structure called a pseudolattice that generalizes the notion of a lattice, and show that there is a Π2 necessary and sufficient condition for embedding a finite pseudolattice into ℐ.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-220
Author(s):  
Justin Miller

AbstractThere are many computational problems which are generally “easy” to solve but have certain rare examples which are much more difficult to solve. One approach to studying these problems is to ignore the difficult edge cases. Asymptotic computability is one of the formal tools that uses this approach to study these problems. Asymptotically computable sets can be thought of as almost computable sets, however every set is computationally equivalent to an almost computable set. Intrinsic density was introduced as a way to get around this unsettling fact, and which will be our main focus.Of particular interest for the first half of this dissertation are the intrinsically small sets, the sets of intrinsic density $0$ . While the bulk of the existing work concerning intrinsic density was focused on these sets, there were still many questions left unanswered. The first half of this dissertation answers some of these questions. We proved some useful closure properties for the intrinsically small sets and applied them to prove separations for the intrinsic variants of asymptotic computability. We also completely separated hyperimmunity and intrinsic smallness in the Turing degrees and resolved some open questions regarding the relativization of intrinsic density.For the second half of this dissertation, we turned our attention to the study of intermediate intrinsic density. We developed a calculus using noncomputable coding operations to construct examples of sets with intermediate intrinsic density. For almost all $r\in (0,1)$ , this construction yielded the first known example of a set with intrinsic density r which cannot compute a set random with respect to the r-Bernoulli measure. Motivated by the fact that intrinsic density coincides with the notion of injection stochasticity, we applied these techniques to study the structure of the more well-known notion of MWC-stochasticity.Abstract prepared by Justin Miller.E-mail: [email protected]: https://curate.nd.edu/show/6t053f4938w


2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 559-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Barmpalias ◽  
Andrew E. M. Lewis ◽  
Mariya Soskova

AbstractWe say that A ≤LRB if every B-random number is A-random. Intuitively this means that if oracle A can identify some patterns on some real γ, oracle B can also find patterns on γ. In other words, B is at least as good as A for this purpose. We study the structure of the LR degrees globally and locally (i.e., restricted to the computably enumerable degrees) and their relationship with the Turing degrees. Among other results we show that whenever ∝ is not GL2 the LR degree of ∝ bounds degrees (so that, in particular, there exist LR degrees with uncountably many predecessors) and we give sample results which demonstrate how various techniques from the theory of the c.e. degrees can be used to prove results about the c.e. LR degrees.


2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney G. Downey ◽  
Geoffrey L. Laforte ◽  
Richard A. Shore

AbstractGiven two incomparable c.e. Turing degrees a and b, we show that there exists a c.e. degree c such that c = (a ∪ c) ∩ (b ∪ c), a ∪ c ∣ b ∪ c, and c < a ∪ b.


2014 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 676-692 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEORGE BARMPALIAS ◽  
ROD G. DOWNEY

AbstractTheK-trivial sets form an ideal in the Turing degrees, which is generated by its computably enumerable (c.e.) members and has an exact pair below the degree of the halting problem. The question of whether it has an exact pair in the c.e. degrees was first raised in [22, Question 4.2] and later in [25, Problem 5.5.8].We give a negative answer to this question. In fact, we show the following stronger statement in the c.e. degrees. There exists aK-trivial degreedsuch that for all degreesa, bwhich are notK-trivial anda > d, b > dthere exists a degreevwhich is notK-trivial anda > v, b > v. This work sheds light to the question of the definability of theK-trivial degrees in the c.e. degrees.


10.53733/133 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 175-231
Author(s):  
Rod Downey ◽  
Noam Greenberg ◽  
Ellen Hammatt

A transfinite hierarchy of Turing degrees of c.e.\ sets has been used to calibrate the dynamics of families of constructions in computability theory, and yields natural definability results. We review the main results of the area, and discuss splittings of c.e.\ degrees, and finding maximal degrees in upper cones.


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