Series: Penn State Logic Seminar
Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Time: 2:30 - 3:45 PM
Place: 113 McAllister Building
Speaker: Stephen G. Simpson, Penn State, Mathematics
Title: Some Results Concerning Muchnik Degrees, part 3
Abstract:
Let P and Q be sets of reals. P is said to be Muchnik reducible to Q
if every member of Q Turing-computes a member of P. A Muchnik degree
is an equivalence class of sets of reals under mutual Muchnik
reducibility. It is easy to see that the Muchnik degrees form a
distributive lattice under the partial ordering induced by Muchnik
reducibility. Call this lattice L. We study not only L but also its
distributive sublattice L_0 consisting of the Muchnik degrees of
nonempty Pi^0_1 subsets of the closed unit interval [0,1].
In part 1 we introduce L and L_0. We also present Simpson's result
that any two nonempty Pi^0_1 subsets of [0,1] belonging to the top
element of L_0 are Turing degree isomorphic.
In parts 2 and 3 we discuss some further topics concerning L_0:
1-random reals, applications of the hyperimmune-free basis theorem,
applications of Arslanov's completeness criterion, the
Sigma^0_3/Pi^0_1 lemma, 2-random reals, DNR functions, embedding the
r. e. degrees.
Lecture notes are available at http://www.personal.psu.edu/t20/logic/seminar/030304.dvi.