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Degrees of Categoricity Above Limit Ordinals

Logic 2018-08-03 v2

Abstract

A computable structure A\mathcal{A} has degree of categoricity d\mathbf{d} if d\mathbf{d} is exactly the degree of difficulty of computing isomorphisms between isomorphic computable copies of A\mathcal{A}. Fokina, Kalimullin, and Miller showed that every degree d.c.e. in and above 0(n)\mathbf{0}^{(n)}, for any n<ωn < \omega, and also the degree 0(ω)\mathbf{0}^{(\omega)}, are degrees of categoricity. Later, Csima, Franklin, and Shore showed that every degree 0(α)\mathbf{0}^{(\alpha)} for any computable ordinal α\alpha, and every degree d.c.e. in and above 0(α)\mathbf{0}^{(\alpha)} for any successor ordinal α\alpha, is a degree of categoricity. We show that every degree c.e. in and above 0(α)\mathbf{0}^{(\alpha)}, for α\alpha a limit ordinal, is a degree of categoricity. We also show that every degree c.e. in and above 0(ω)\mathbf{0}^{(\omega)} is the degree of categoricity of a prime model, making progress towards a question of Bazhenov and Marchuk.

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@article{arxiv.1805.10249,
  title  = {Degrees of Categoricity Above Limit Ordinals},
  author = {Barbara F. Csima and Michael Deveau and Matthew Harrison-Trainor and Mohammad Assem Mahmoud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10249},
  year   = {2018}
}

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