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On the structures inside truth-table degrees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Frank Stephan
Frank Stephan*
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Universität Heidelberg, Mathematisches Institut, IM Neuenheimer Feld 294, 69120, Heidelberg, GermanyEU, E-mail: fstephan@math.uni-heidelberg.de
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Abstract

The following theorems on the structure inside nonrecursive truth-table degrees are established: Dëgtev's result that the number of bounded truth-table degrees inside a truth-table degree is at least two is improved by showing that this number is infinite. There are even infinite chains and antichains of bounded truth-table degrees inside every truth-table degree. The latter implies an affirmative answer to the following question of Jockusch: does every truth-table degree contain an infinite antichain of many-one degrees? Some but not all truth-table degrees have a least bounded truth-table degree. The technique to construct such a degree is used to solve an open problem of Beigel, Gasarch and Owings: there are Turing degrees (constructed as hyperimmune-free truth-table degrees) which consist only of 2-subjective sets and therefore do not contain any objective set. Furthermore, a truth-table degree consisting of three positive degrees is constructed where one positive degree consists of enumerable semirecursive sets, one of coenumerable semirecursive sets and one of sets, which are neither enumerable nor coenumerable nor semirecursive. So Jockusch's result that there are at least three positive degrees inside a truth-table degree is optimal. The number of positive degrees inside a truth-table degree can also be some other odd integer as for example nineteen, but it is never an even finite number.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 66 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 731 - 770
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2001

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