Effective strong nullness and effectively closed sets

  • Authors:
  • Kojiro Higuchi;Takayuki Kihara

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan;Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  • Venue:
  • CiE'12 Proceedings of the 8th Turing Centenary conference on Computability in Europe: how the world computes
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The strongly null sets of reals have been widely studied in the context of set theory of the real line. We introduce an effectivization of strong nullness. A set of reals is said to be effectively strongly null if, for any computable sequence {εn}n∈ω of positive rationals, a sequence of intervals In of diameter εn covers the set. We show that for $\Pi^0_1$ subsets of 2ω effective strong nullness is equivalent to another well studied notion called diminutiveness: the property of not having a computably perfect subset. In addition, we also investigate the Muchnik degrees of effectively strongly null $\Pi^0_1$ subsets of 2ω. Let MLR and DNC be the sets of all Martin-Löf random reals and diagonally noncomputable functions, respectively. We prove that neither the Muchnik degree of MLR nor that of DNC is comparable with the Muchnik degree of a nonempty effectively strongly null $\Pi^0_1$ subsets of 2ω with no computable element.