Dense Chains, Antichains, and Universal Partial Orders Inside a Bounded Finite-One Degree
Abstract
We construct a nonrecursive set and a uniformly computable family of sets , all bounded finite-one equivalent to , such that the corresponding -degrees form a copy of the dense linear order . Motivated by a recent preprint of Richter, Stephan, and Zhang, which shows that bounded finite-one degrees can be as rigid as a discrete -chain and asks whether there are bounded finite-one degrees consisting exactly of a dense linearly ordered set of -degrees, we introduce a block-density profile method for controlling one-one reducibility inside a single bounded finite-one degree. As further applications, in the same bounded finite-one degree we obtain an infinite antichain of -degrees and, more generally, an embedded copy of every countable partial order. A single bounded finite-one degree can already exhibit dense, incomparable, and universal order-theoretic behaviour. Our main technical tool is a profile theorem based on computable block-density codings. The witness set constructed here is not -rigid, so the phenomena obtained in this paper arise from a mechanism different from earlier -rigidity-based constructions. Although our results do not settle the exact realization problem posed by Richter, Stephan, and Zhang, we show that density itself is not the obstruction: a single bounded finite-one degree may already contain a copy of , an infinite antichain, and embeddings of all countable partial orders.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2603.27901,
title = {Dense Chains, Antichains, and Universal Partial Orders Inside a Bounded Finite-One Degree},
author = {Patrizio Cintioli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27901},
year = {2026}
}