Enumerations of Π10 Classes: Acceptability and Decidable Classes

  • Authors:
  • Paul Brodhead

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A @P"1^0 class is an effectively closed set of reals. One way to view it is as the set of infinite paths through a computable tree. We consider the notion of acceptably equivalent numberings of @P"1^0 classes. We show that a permutation exists between any two acceptably equivalent numberings that preserves the computable content. Furthermore the most commonly used numberings of the @P"1^0 classes are acceptably equivalent. We also consider decidable @P"1^0 classes in enumerations. A decidable @P"1^0 class may be represented by a unique computable tree without dead ends, but we show that this tree may not show up in an enumeration of uniformly computable trees which gives rise to all @P"1^0 classes. In fact this is guaranteed to occur for some decidable @P"1^0 class. These results are motivated by structural questions concerning the upper semilattice of enumerations of @P"1^0 classes where notions such as acceptable equivalence arise.