Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2023
A Polish space is not always homeomorphic to a computably presented Polish space. In this article, we examine degrees of non-computability of presenting homeomorphic copies of compact Polish spaces. We show that there exists a $\mathbf {0}'$-computable low
$_3$ compact Polish space which is not homeomorphic to a computable one, and that, for any natural number
$n\geq 2$, there exists a Polish space
$X_n$ such that exactly the high
$_{n}$-degrees are required to present the homeomorphism type of
$X_n$. Along the way we investigate the computable aspects of Čech homology groups. We also show that no compact Polish space has a least presentation with respect to Turing reducibility.