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Minimal upper bounds for arithmetical degrees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Masahiro Kumabe
Masahiro Kumabe*
Affiliation:
The University of the Air, 2-11, Wakaba, Mihama-Ku, Chiba 261, Japan
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This paper was inspired by Lerman [14] in which he proved various properties of upper bounds for the arithmetical degrees. The degrees which are upper bounds for the arithmetical degrees were first studied by Hodes [5] and Enderton and Putnam [5]. Enderton and Putnam [5] showed that if a is an upper bound for the arithmetical degrees, then a(2) ≥ 0(ω). This area was further studied by Hodes [5], Knight, Lachlan and Soare [12], Jockusch and Simpson [12], and Sacks [17].

Enderton and Putnam [5] and Sacks [17] have combined to show that 0(ω) is the least degree in {a(2): a is an upper bound for the arithmetical degrees}. So there seem to be some analogies between the degrees of upper bounds for the arithmetical degrees and the degrees below 0(2). But Sacks [17] showed an important difference between these two structures; namely, the Turing jumps of upper bounds for the arithmetical degrees have no least element. In Lerman [14], a systematic investigation of properties of the jumps of upper bounds for the arithmetical degrees was suggested, which could lead to a definition of the jump operator over the elementary theory of the partial ordering of the degrees. Although Cooper [5] found a degree-theoretic definition of the jump operator, Lerman's plan is still interesting.

We say a degree a is generic if there is a representative A of a such that A is Cohen generic for the arithmetical sentences. By Jockusch [5], the statement that A is Cohen generic for the arithmetical sentences is equivalent to saying that for any arithmetical set S of binary strings, there is a σ extended by A such that σ is in S or no extension of σ is in S. First, we investigate the relation between generic degrees and upper bounds for the arithmetical degrees. In the case D(≤ 0′), the set of degrees below 0′, it is well known that any nonrecursive r.e. degree bounds a 1-generic degree (Cohen generic for Σ1 sentences). Jockusch and Ponser [12] showed that any degree a with a″ >T (a ∪ 0′)′ bounds a 1-generic degree.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 516 - 528
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1994

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