Maximal Pairs of Computably Enumerable Sets in the Computably Lipschitz Degrees
Maximal Pairs of Computably Enumerable Sets in the Computably Lipschitz Degrees
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DOI:
10.1007/s00224-012-9424-1
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发表时间:
2012
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0.5
通讯作者:
K. Ambos-Spies;Decheng Ding;Yun Fan;W. Merkle
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作者:
K. Ambos-Spies;Decheng Ding;Yun Fan;W. Merkle
A setAis computably Lipschitz or cl-reducible, for short, to a setBifAis Turing reducible toBby an oracle Turing machine with use functionϕsuch thatϕis bounded by the identity function up to an additive constant, i.e.,ϕ(n)≤n+O(1). In this paper we study maximal pairs of computably enumerable (c.e.) cl-degrees or maximal pairs, for short, i.e., pairs of c.e. cl-degrees such that there is no c.e. cl-degree that is above both cl-degrees in this pair. Our main results are as follows. (1) A c.e. Turing degree contains a c.e. cl-degree that is half of a maximal pair if and only if this Turing degree contains a maximal pair if and only if this Turing degree is array noncomputable. (2) The cl-degrees of all weak truth-table complete sets are halves of maximal pairs while there is a Turing complete setAsuch that the cl-degree ofAis not half of any maximal pair. In fact, any high c.e. Turing degree contains a c.e. cl-degree that is not half of a maximal pair. (3) Above any c.e. cl-degree there is a maximal pair. (4) There is a maximal pair which at the same time is a minimal pair. (5) There is a pair of c.e. cl-degrees that is not maximal and does not possess a least upper bound.Moreover, we make some observations on the structure of the c.e. cl-degrees in general. For instance, we give a very simple proof of the fact that there are no maximal c.e. cl-degrees.