English

$\Delta^1_1$ Effectivization in Borel Combinatorics

Logic 2021-05-11 v1

Abstract

We develop a flexible method for showing that Borel witnesses to some combinatorial property of Δ11\Delta^1_1 objects yield Δ11\Delta^1_1 witnesses. We use a modification the Gandy--Harrington forcing method of proving dichotomies, and we can recover the complexity consequences of many known dichotomies with short and simple proofs. Using our methods, we give a simplified proof that smooth Δ11\Delta^1_1 equivalence relations are Δ11\Delta^1_1-reducible to equality; we prove effective versions of the Lusin--Novikov and Feldman--Moore theorems; we prove new effectivization results related to dichotomy theorems due to Hjorth and Miller (originally proven using ``forceless, ineffective, and powerless" methods); and we prove a new upper bound on the complexity of the set of Schreier graphs for Z2\mathbb{Z}^2 actions. We also prove an equivariant version of the G0G_0 dichotomy that implies some of these new results and a dichotomy for graphs induced by Borel actions of Z2\mathbb{Z}^2.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2105.04063,
  title  = {$\Delta^1_1$ Effectivization in Borel Combinatorics},
  author = {Riley Thornton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.04063},
  year   = {2021}
}
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