The Arithmetical Hierarchy of Real Numbers

  • Authors:
  • Xizhong Zheng;Klaus Weihrauch

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • MFCS '99 Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

A real number is computable if it is the limit of an effectively converging computable sequence of rational numbers, and left (right) computable if it is the supremum (infimum) of a computable sequence of rational numbers. By applying the operations "sup" and "inf" alternately n times to computable (multiple) sequences of rational numbers we introduce a non-collapsing hierajchy {Σn,IIn,Δn : n Ɛ N} of real numbers. We characterize the classes Σ2,II2 and Δ2 in various ways and give several interesting examples.