{"title":"The singleton degrees of the Σ20 sets are not dense","authors":"Thomas F. Kent , Keng Meng Ng , Andrea Sorbi","doi":"10.1016/j.apal.2025.103616","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Answering an open question raised by Cooper, we show that there exist <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Δ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span> sets <em>D</em> and <em>E</em> such that the singleton degree of <em>E</em> is a minimal cover of the singleton degree of <em>D</em>. This shows that the <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Σ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span> singleton degrees, and the <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Δ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span> singleton degrees, are not dense (and consequently the <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Π</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span> <em>Q</em>-degrees, and the <span><math><msubsup><mrow><mi>Δ</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>0</mn></mrow></msubsup></math></span> <em>Q</em>-degrees, are not dense). Moreover, <em>D</em> and <em>E</em> can be built to lie in the same enumeration degree.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50762,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","volume":"176 9","pages":"Article 103616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Pure and Applied Logic","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016800722500065X","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"LOGIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Answering an open question raised by Cooper, we show that there exist sets D and E such that the singleton degree of E is a minimal cover of the singleton degree of D. This shows that the singleton degrees, and the singleton degrees, are not dense (and consequently the Q-degrees, and the Q-degrees, are not dense). Moreover, D and E can be built to lie in the same enumeration degree.
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