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Degrees of categoricity and treeable degrees

Logic 2023-05-12 v2

Abstract

We give a characterization of the strong degrees of categoricity of computable structures greater or equal to 0\mathbf 0''. They are precisely the \emph{treeable} degrees -- the least degrees of paths through computable trees -- that compute 0\mathbf 0''. As a corollary, we obtain several new examples of degrees of categoricity. Among them we show that every degree d\mathbf d with 0(α)d0(α+1)\mathbf 0^{(\alpha)}\leq \mathbf d\leq \mathbf 0^{(\alpha+1)} for α\alpha a computable ordinal greater than 22 is the strong degree of categoricity of a rigid structure. Using quite different techniques we show that every degree d\mathbf d with 0d0\mathbf 0'\leq \mathbf d\leq \mathbf 0'' is the strong degree of categoricity of a structure. Together with the above example this answers a question of Csima and Ng. To complete the picture we show that there is a degree d\mathbf d with 0<d<0\mathbf 0'< \mathbf d< \mathbf 0'' that is not the degree of categoricity of a rigid structure.

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@article{arxiv.2209.04524,
  title  = {Degrees of categoricity and treeable degrees},
  author = {Barbara F. Csima and Dino Rossegger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04524},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Replaces arXiv:2209.04524 where it was incorrectly claimed that "Every degree of categoricity above 0'' is strong". We do not have a proof of this fact. Changes were made to reflect this

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