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Decomposing Borel functions using the Shore-Slaman join theorem

Logic 2016-09-06 v2 General Topology

Abstract

Jayne and Rogers proved that every function from an analytic space into a separable metric space is decomposable into countably many continuous functions with closed domains if and only if the preimage of each FσF_\sigma set under it is again FσF_\sigma. Many researchers conjectured that the Jayne-Rogers theorem can be generalized to all finite levels of Borel functions. In this paper, by using the Shore-Slaman join theorem on the Turing degrees, we show the following variant of the Jayne-Rogers theorem at finite and transfinite levels of the hierarchy of Borel functions: For all countable ordinals α\alpha and β\beta with αβ<α2\alpha\leq\beta<\alpha\cdot 2, every function between Polish spaces having small transfinite inductive dimension is decomposable into countably many Baire class γ\gamma functions with Δβ+10\mathbf{\Delta}^0_{\beta+1} domains such that γ+αβ\gamma+\alpha\leq\beta if and only if the preimage of each Σα+10\mathbf{\Sigma}^0_{\alpha+1} set under that function is Σβ+10\mathbf{\Sigma}^0_{\beta+1}, and the transformation of a Σα+10\mathbf{\Sigma}^0_{\alpha+1} set into the Σβ+10\mathbf{\Sigma}^0_{\beta+1} preimage is continuous.

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@article{arxiv.1304.0698,
  title  = {Decomposing Borel functions using the Shore-Slaman join theorem},
  author = {Takayuki Kihara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0698},
  year   = {2016}
}
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