Noam Greenberg, Matthew Harrison-Trainor, Joseph S. Miller, Dan Turetsky
{"title":"Enumerations of families closed under finite differences","authors":"Noam Greenberg, Matthew Harrison-Trainor, Joseph S. Miller, Dan Turetsky","doi":"10.3233/com-210349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-210349","url":null,"abstract":"Slaman and Wehner independently built a family of sets with the property that every non-computable degree can compute an enumeration of the family, but there is no computable enumeration of the family. We call such a family a Slaman–Wehner family. The original Slaman–Wehner argument relies on all sets in the family constructed being finite, and in particular, it diagonalizes against computably enumerated families using only finite differences. In this paper we ask whether this is a necessary feature, that is, whether there is a Slaman–Wehner family closed under finite differences. This question remains open but we obtain a number of interesting partial results which can be interpreted as saying that the question is quite hard. First of all, no Slaman–Wehner family closed under finite differences can contain a finite set, and the enumeration of the family from a non-computable degree cannot be uniform (whereas, in the Slaman–Wehner construction, it is uniform). On the other hand, we build the following examples of families closed under finite differences which show the impossibility of several natural attempts to show that no Slaman–Wehner family exists: (1) a family that can be enumerated by every non-low degree, but not by any low degree; (2) a family that can be enumerated by any set in a given uniform list of c.e. sets, but which cannot be enumerated computably; and (3) a family that can be enumerated by a given Δ 2 0 set, but which cannot be computably enumerated.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"15 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135167787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nearly computable real numbers","authors":"Peter Hertling, Philip Janicki","doi":"10.3233/com-230445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230445","url":null,"abstract":"We call a sequence ( a n ) n of elements of a metric space nearly computably Cauchy if for every increasing computable function r : N → N the sequence ( d ( a r ( n + 1 ) , a r ( n ) ) ) n converges computably to 0. We show that there exists an increasing sequence of rational numbers that is nearly computably Cauchy and unbounded. Then we call a real number α nearly computable if there exists a computable sequence ( a n ) n of rational numbers that converges to α and is nearly computably Cauchy. It is clear that every computable real number is nearly computable, and it follows from a result by Downey and LaForte (Theoretical Computer Science 284 (2002) 539–555) that there exists a nearly computable and left-computable number that is not computable. We observe that the set of nearly computable real numbers is a real closed field and closed under computable real functions with open domain, but not closed under arbitrary computable real functions. Among other things we strengthen results by Hoyrup (Theory of Computing Systems 60 (2017) 396–420) and by Stephan and Wu (In New computational paradigms. First conference on computability in Europe, CiE 2005, Proceedings (2005) 461–469 Springer) by showing that any nearly computable real number that is not computable is weakly 1-generic (and, therefore, hyperimmune and not Martin-Löf random) and strongly Kurtz random (and, therefore, not K-trivial), and we strengthen a result by Downey and LaForte (Theoretical Computer Science 284 (2002) 539–555) by showing that no promptly simple set can be Turing reducible to a nearly computable real number.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes on overt choice","authors":"Mathieu Hoyrup","doi":"10.3233/com-230458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230458","url":null,"abstract":"Overt choice was recently introduced and thoroughly studied by de Brecht, Pauly and Schröder. They give estimates on the Weihrauch degree of overt choice on various spaces, and relate it to the topological properties of the space. In this article, we pursue this line of research, answering some of the questions that were left open. We show that overt choice on the rationals is not limit-computable. We identify the Weihrauch degree of overt choice on the space of natural numbers with the co-finite topology. We prove that the quasi-Polish spaces are the countably-based T 0 -spaces on which a variant of overt choice, called Π ~ 2 0 overt choice, is continuous. It extends a previous result that holds in the class of T 1 -spaces. We also prove an effective version of this equivalence.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lowness properties for strong reducibilities and the computational power of maximal sets","authors":"Klaus Ambos-Spies, Rod Downey, Martin Monath","doi":"10.3233/com-220432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-220432","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce the notion of eventually uniformly weak truth table array computable (e.u.wtt-a.c.) sets. As our main result, we show that a computably enumerable (c.e.) set has this property iff it is weak truth table ( wtt-) reducible to a maximal set. Moreover, in this equivalence we may replace maximal sets by quasi-maximal sets, hyperhypersimple sets or dense simple sets and we may replace wtt-reducibility by identity-bounded Turing reducibility (or any intermediate reducibility). Here, a set A is e.u.wtt-a.c. if there is an effective procedure which, for any given partial wtt-functional Φ ˆ, yields a computable approximation g ( x , s ) of the domain of Φ ˆ A together with a computable indicator function k ( x , s ) and a computable order h ( x ) such that, once the indicator becomes positive, i.e., k ( x , s ) = 1, the number of the mind changes of the approximation g on x after stage s is bounded by h ( x ) where, for total Φ ˆ A , the indicator eventually becomes positive on almost all arguments x of Φ ˆ A . In addition to our main result, we show several properties of the computably enumerable e.u.wtt-a.c. sets. For instance, the class of these sets is closed downwards under wtt-reductions and closed under join. Moreover, we relate this class to – and separate it from – well known classes in the literature. On the one hand, the class of the wtt-degrees of the c.e. e.u.wtt-a.c. sets is strictly contained in the class of the array computable c.e. wtt-degrees. On the other hand, every bounded low set is e.u.wtt-a.c. but there are e.u.wtt-a.c. c.e. sets which are not bounded low. Here a set A is bounded low if A † ⩽ wtt ∅ † , i.e., if A † is ω-c.a., where A † is the wtt-jump of A (Anderson, Csima and Lange (Archive for Mathematical Logic 56(5–6) (2017) 507–521)). Finally, we prove that there is a strict hierarchy within the class of the bounded low c.e. sets A depending on the order h that bounds the number of mind changes of a computable approximation of A † , and we show that there exists a Turing complete set A such that A † is h-c.a. for any computable order h with h ( 0 ) > 0.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135898173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithmically random series","authors":"Rodney G. Downey, Noam Greenberg, Andrew Tanggara","doi":"10.3233/com-220433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-220433","url":null,"abstract":"Rademacher (Mathematische Annalen 87 (1922) 112–138), Steinhaus (Mathematische Zeitschrift 31 (1930) 408–416) and Paley and Zygmund (Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26 (1930) 337–257, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 26 (1930) 458–474, Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 28 (1932) 190–205) initiated the extensive study of random series. Using the theory of algorithmic randomness, which is a mix of computability theory and probability theory, we investigate the effective content of some classical theorems. We discuss how this is related to an old question of Kahane and Bollobás. We also discuss how considerations of such algorithmic questions about random series seem to lead to new notions of algorithmic randomness.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135785018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punctually presented structures I: Closure theorems","authors":"M. Dorzhieva, A. Melnikov","doi":"10.3233/com-230448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230448","url":null,"abstract":"We study the primitive recursive content of various closure results in algebra and model theory, including the algebraic, the real, and the differential closure theorems. In the case of ordered fields and their real closures, our result settles a question recently raised by Selivanova and Selivanov.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74558222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numberings, c.e. oracles, and fixed points","authors":"M. Faizrahmanov","doi":"10.3233/com-210387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-210387","url":null,"abstract":"The Arslanov completeness criterion says that a c.e. set A is Turing complete if and only there exists an A-computable function f without fixed points, i.e. a function f such that W f ( x ) ≠ W x for each integer x. Recently, Barendregt and Terwijn proved that the completeness criterion remains true if we replace the Gödel numbering x ↦ W x with an arbitrary precomplete computable numbering. In this paper, we prove criteria for noncomputability and highness of c.e. sets in terms of (pre)complete computable numberings and fixed point properties. We also find some precomplete and weakly precomplete numberings of arbitrary families computable relative to Turing complete and non-computable c.e. oracles respectively.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82669109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectively infinite classes of numberings and computable families of reals","authors":"M. Faizrahmanov, Zlata Shchedrikova","doi":"10.3233/com-230461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230461","url":null,"abstract":"We prove various sufficient conditions for the effective infinity of classes of computable numberings. Then we apply them to show that for every computable family of left-c.e. reals without the greatest element the class of its Friedberg computable numberings is effectively infinite. In particular, this result covers the families of all left-c.e. and all Martin-Löf random left-c.e. reals whose Friedberg computable numberings have been constructed by Broadhead and Kjos-Hanssen in their paper (In Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice, CiE 2009 (2009) 49–58 Springer). In addition, for every infinite computable family of left-c.e. reals we prove that the classes of all its computable, positive and minimal numberings are effectively infinite.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"526 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77010473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L 2 -Betti numbers and computability of reals","authors":"Clara Löh, Matthias Uschold","doi":"10.3233/com-220416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-220416","url":null,"abstract":"We study the computability degree of real numbers arising as L 2 -Betti numbers or L 2 -torsion of groups, parametrised over the Turing degree of the word problem.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136296393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Banach’s theorem in higher-order reverse mathematics","authors":"J. Hirst, Carl Mummert","doi":"10.3233/com-230453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/com-230453","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, methods of second-order and higher-order reverse mathematics are applied to versions of a theorem of Banach that extends the Schröder–Bernstein theorem. Some additional results address statements in higher-order arithmetic formalizing the uncountability of the power set of the natural numbers. In general, the formalizations of higher-order principles here have a Skolemized form asserting the existence of functionals that solve problems uniformly. This facilitates proofs of reversals in axiom systems with restricted choice.","PeriodicalId":42452,"journal":{"name":"Computability-The Journal of the Association CiE","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77820325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}