Coding information into all infinite subsets of a dense set
Abstract
Suppose you have an uncomputable set and you want to find a set , all of whose infinite subsets compute . There are several ways to do this, but all of them seem to produce a set which is fairly sparse. We show that this is necessary in the following technical sense: if is uncomputable and is a set of positive lower density then has an infinite subset which does not compute . We also prove an analogous result for PA degree: if is uncomputable and is a set of positive lower density then has an infinite subset which is not of PA degree. We will show that these theorems are sharp in certain senses and also prove a quantitative version formulated in terms of Kolmogorov complexity. Our results use a modified version of Mathias forcing and build on work by Seetapun, Liu, and others on the reverse math of Ramsey's theorem for pairs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.01226,
title = {Coding information into all infinite subsets of a dense set},
author = {Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Lu Liu and Patrick Lutz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.01226},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
37 pages. Paper updated to fix typos