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How enumeration reductibility yields extended Harrington non-splitting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Mariya I. Soskova  and
S. Barry Cooper
Mariya I. Soskova
Affiliation:
University of Leeds, Department of Pure Mathematics, Leeds, LS2 9JT., UK, E-mail: [email protected]
S. Barry Cooper
Affiliation:
University of Leeds, Department of Pure Mathematics, Leeds, LS2 9JT., UK, E-mail: [email protected]
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§1. Introduction. Sacks [16] showed that every computably enumerable (c.e.) degree > 0 has a c.e. splitting. Hence, relativising, every c.e. degree has a Δ2 splitting above each proper predecessor (by ‘splitting’ we understand ‘nontrivial splitting’). Arslanov [1] showed that 0′ has a d.c.e. splitting above each c.e. a < 0′. On the other hand, Lachlan [11] proved the existence of a c.e. a < 0 which has no c.e. splitting above some proper c.e. predecessor, and Harrington [10] showed that one could take a = 0′. Splitting and nonsplitting techniques have had a number of consequences for definability and elementary equivalence in the degrees below 0′.

Heterogeneous splittings are best considered in the context of cupping and non-cupping. Posner and Robinson [15] showed that every nonzero Δ2 degree can be nontrivially cupped to 0′, and Arslanov [1] showed that every c.e. degree > 0 can be d.c.e. cupped to 0′ (and hence since every d.c.e., or even n-c.e., degree has a nonzero c.e. predecessor, every n-c.e. degree > 0 is d.c.e. cuppable). Cooper [4] and Yates (see Miller [13]) showed the existence of degrees noncuppable in the c.e. degrees. Moreover, the search for relative cupping results was drastically limited by Cooper [5], and Slaman and Steel [17] (see also Downey [9]), who showed that there is a nonzero c.e. degree a below which even Δ2 cupping of c.e. degrees fails.

We prove below what appears to be the strongest possible of such nonsplitting and noncupping results.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 634 - 655
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2008

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