Immunity for Closed Sets

  • Authors:
  • Douglas Cenzer;Rebecca Weber;Guohua Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville 32611;Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover 03755-3551;School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  • Venue:
  • CiE '09 Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Computability in Europe: Mathematical Theory and Computational Practice
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The notion of immune sets is extended to closed sets and $\Pi^0_1$ classes in particular. We construct a $\Pi^0_1$ class with no computable member which is not immune. We show that for any computably inseparable sets A and B , the class S (A ,B ) of separating sets for A and B is immune. We show that every perfect thin $\Pi^0_1$ class is immune. We define the stronger notion of prompt immunity and construct an example of a $\Pi^0_1$ class of positive measure which is promptly immune. We show that the immune degrees in the Medvedev lattice of closed sets forms a filter. We show that for any $\Pi^0_1$ class P with no computable element, there is a $\Pi^0_1$ class Q which is not immune and has no computable element, and which is Medvedev reducible to P . We show that any random closed set is immune.