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ON THE STRUCTURE OF COMPUTABLE REDUCIBILITY ON EQUIVALENCE RELATIONS OF NATURAL NUMBERS

Part of: Computability and recursion theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2022

URI ANDREWS ,
DANIEL F. BELIN  and
LUCA SAN MAURO
URI ANDREWS*
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON, WI 53706-1388, USA E-mail: dbelin@wisc.edu
DANIEL F. BELIN
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON, WI 53706-1388, USA E-mail: dbelin@wisc.edu
LUCA SAN MAURO
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS “GUIDO CASTELNUOVO” SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME ROME, ITALY E-mail: luca.sanmauro@uniroma1.it
*
E-mail: andrews@math.wisc.edu
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Abstract

We examine the degree structure $\operatorname {\mathrm {\mathbf {ER}}}$ of equivalence relations on $\omega $ under computable reducibility. We examine when pairs of degrees have a least upper bound. In particular, we show that sufficiently incomparable pairs of degrees do not have a least upper bound but that some incomparable degrees do, and we characterize the degrees which have a least upper bound with every finite equivalence relation. We show that the natural classes of finite, light, and dark degrees are definable in $\operatorname {\mathrm {\mathbf {ER}}}$. We show that every equivalence relation has continuum many self-full strong minimal covers, and that $\mathbf {d}\oplus \mathbf {\operatorname {\mathrm {\mathbf {Id}}}_1}$ needn’t be a strong minimal cover of a self-full degree $\mathbf {d}$. Finally, we show that the theory of the degree structure $\operatorname {\mathrm {\mathbf {ER}}}$ as well as the theories of the substructures of light degrees and of dark degrees are each computably isomorphic with second-order arithmetic.

Keywords

computable reducibilitycountable equivalence relationscomputably enumerable equivalence relationssecond-order arithmetic

MSC classification

Primary: 03D55: Hierarchies
Secondary: 03D30: Other degrees and reducibilities

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 88 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 1038 - 1063
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